Air India Pilot
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Air India plane crash probe: Pilots' body slams summons to captain Sumeet Sabharwal's relative
India | Jan 15, 2026, 01:47 PM ISTAir India Flight 171 plummeted seconds after departing Ahmedabad for London Gatwick, crashing into a medical college hostel and claiming 260 lives: all 12 crew members, 229 of 230 passengers, and 19 people on the ground.
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Air India fined Rs 30 lakh after DGCA finds airline pilot operated without required recency
India | Feb 01, 2025, 09:18 PM ISTThe order to impose penalty came after the response of a show-cause notice to Air India's head of operations and head of rostering, among other executives
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Air India flyers stranded in Jaipur for 5 hours after pilot refused to fly citing 'duty hours'
India | Jun 26, 2023, 05:59 PM ISTDue to the pilot's refusal, 350 passengers were stranded at the Jaipur airport for approximately five hours and had to look for alternative transportation to Delhi.
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Air India pilot bodies ask members not to accept revamped compensation structure; airline reacts
Business | Apr 19, 2023, 11:16 PM ISTAir India has unilaterally changed the condition without consulting the pilots and alleged that they are trying to make all senior pilots executive and thus kill the unions.
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High Court grants anticipatory bail to Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia
India | Jul 01, 2019, 11:46 AM ISTJustice Mukta Gupta granted relief to Arvind Kathpalia on his plea apprehending arrest in a case lodged against him on the direction of a lower court.
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Air India suspended pilot states 'hair serum' to be the reason behind positive alcohol test
India | Jun 04, 2019, 03:30 PM ISTDuring the hearing, Captain Amit Tyagi's counsel told Justice Vibhu Bakhru that the pre-flight BA test showed the reading between 0.16 and 0.20, which was below the international permissible standard of 0.40.
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Saudi Arabia: Air India pilot dies of 'heart attack' in Riyadh hotel
World | May 30, 2018, 09:05 PM IST27-year-old Rithwick Tiwari, a first officer with the state-run airline, died reportedly of a heart attack while working out in the hotel gym
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AI pilot locks himself up in cockpit after assaulting engineer at Chennai airport
India | Jan 17, 2015, 02:17 PM ISTChennai: An Air India pilot assaulted a flight engineer inside the cockpit at the Chennai airport today morning.The Chennai-Paris flight AI 143 flight, with 142 people onboard, was delayed due to the fight.Reports suggest that
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Two Air India pilots suspended for allowing South actress Nithya Menon inside cockpit
India | Jul 19, 2013, 12:54 PM ISTNew Delhi, Jul 19: Two Air India pilots have been suspended after they allowed a south Indian actress to sit inside the cockpit on a Bangalore-Hyderabad flight, with the DGCA probing the "flagrant violation" of