Pilot license scandal widens
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March 27, 2011, Sunday
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AN Indian government aviation official and three other people have been arrested in a widening investigation of corruption in awarding flying licenses to airline pilots, police said yesterday.
The four men were arrested on Friday in New Delhi for their involvement with a flying school in Rajasthan state that had issued fake certificates for training flights flown by its students, police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said.
They include a pilot and an official of India's federal aviation authority, Bhagat said.
The scandal hitting India's airline sector emerged when a pilot working for a budget airline damaged an Airbus 320 aircraft while landing last month. An examination of her papers showed she had used fake documents to get her pilot license.
Investigations since then have revealed at least one unlicensed flying school, unscrupulous officials, and touts who helped underqualified candidates obtain licenses and jobs flying passenger planes for various airlines.
Among those arrested was Pradeep Kumar, an assistant director of the Director General of Civil Aviation, the country's aviation watchdog, who was responsible for granting licenses to flying students, police said.
The four men were arrested on Friday in New Delhi for their involvement with a flying school in Rajasthan state that had issued fake certificates for training flights flown by its students, police spokesman Rajan Bhagat said.
They include a pilot and an official of India's federal aviation authority, Bhagat said.
The scandal hitting India's airline sector emerged when a pilot working for a budget airline damaged an Airbus 320 aircraft while landing last month. An examination of her papers showed she had used fake documents to get her pilot license.
Investigations since then have revealed at least one unlicensed flying school, unscrupulous officials, and touts who helped underqualified candidates obtain licenses and jobs flying passenger planes for various airlines.
Among those arrested was Pradeep Kumar, an assistant director of the Director General of Civil Aviation, the country's aviation watchdog, who was responsible for granting licenses to flying students, police said.
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