FAKE PILOT LICENCE Substandard pilots are being produced at an alarming rate to meet the demand in travel using budget flights. It was reported in TODAY that an AirAsia pilot overshot a runway in the Philippines. The quick and dirty way to get a commercial pilot licence appears to be in the Philippines. Thats what some pilots are doing are in India. So with globalisation, we better check the credentials of the pilots whose airline we fly in. An unprecedented trust deficit and fear looms large in Indian skies with the sudden spate of fake pilots, both commanders and co-pilots, being detected. Hardly a day passes when a pilot with fake degrees and certificates or an official complicit in this fraud is not being caught. It`s said less than one-thirds of the pilots have been screened so far and nine commanders and three co-pilots have been found to be fakes and caught by the police, while some more have so far evaded arrest. Three officials of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the government body that vets an aspiring pilot`s documents and clears them, along with some touts and flying school representatives have also been put behind bars. The arrested pilot has been identified as Sourabh Prakash Lokhande (29). He was apprehended on Tueday, Ashok Chand, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) said. The airline regulator had earlier forwarded his name to Delhi Polices Crime Branch which claimed that the duo had submitted forged marksheets for obtaining the Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL). With this, Delhi Police have arrested 12 pilots, three DGCA officials, three middleman and two forgers. Jaipur Police had also earlier arrested two fake pilots. Lokhande told police that he appeared in three pilot license examinations conducted by the DGCA but did not get through. In 2008, he got CPL from Philippines, but failed to convert it in CPL (India) as he could not pass in the exams. Later, Eknath Patil, a middleman, allegedly told him that if Rs 3.1 lakh was paid to him he could arrange a result showing that he passed in all papers, Chand said. todayonline/world/asia/rapid-growth-leaves-asian-airlines-searching-pilots?singlepage=true timesofindia.indiatimes/india/Fake-pilot-scam-Flying-on-a-wing-and-a-prayer/articleshow/7938913.cms rediff/money/report/fake-pilot-scam-22-arrested-so-far/20110525.htm
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 10:00:01 +0000
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