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The Times of India
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Saurabh Sinha | TNN

BLR simultaneous take off case: DGCA suspends an air traffic controller’s licence for 3 months; issues warning letter to another

NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has suspended the licence of an air traffic controller (ATCO) at Bengaluru Airport for three months and issued a warning letter to another one for allowing two IndiGo aircraft to take off simultaneously — one headed to Kolkata and other to Bhubaneswar - in the same direction on January 7, 2022.

This action against the two has been taken for other lapses too discovered by the regulator like not reporting this serious incident which was brought to the notice of authorities by a TOI report.

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