The aviation safety watchdog, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has suspended Air India’s Chief of Flight Safety following lapses discovered in aspects such as accident prevention that included fabricated reports of internal inspections carried out by the airline.
The DGCA has suspended Captain Rajeev Gupta from the role of Air India’s Chief of Flight Safety for a period of one month, it said in a press statement. The regulator has also ordered Air India to take action against an unnamed auditor involved in the lapses and has raised concerns over shortage of requisite technical man power in the airline. The airline said in response that it was making efforts to improve the organisation’s safety culture.
