Jet Airways brawl: DGCA suspends licences of both pilots for 5 years

January 23, 2018 20:25

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has suspended for five years the privileges of licences of both pilots on board Jet Airways London-Mumbai flight who left the cockpit unattended on January 1.

The development comes weeks after the Indian carrier sacked both the pilots, who were earlier suspended for being involved in an alleged brawl inside the cockpit during a London-Mumbai flight and leaving the controls unmanned.

The airplane had 324 passengers including two infants apart from 14 crew members on board.

A Jet Airways spokesperson had said: Consequent to the review of the events on board Flight 9W 119 London-Mumbai of 01 January, 2018, Jet Airways has terminated services of both the cockpit crew with immediate effect.

Subsequently, the DGCA had immediately commenced a probe into the incident and suspended the flying licence of the co-pilot, who allegedly slapped the flight commander, a woman, during the flight. The commander reportedly left the cockpit in tears. Upon several unsuccessful attempts by the co-pilot to call the captain back into the cockpit, the former, too, allegedly left the flight controls on the Boeing 777 widebody aircraft.

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