The aviation safety regulator DGCA on Thursday suspended an Air India pilot-in-command for a year for allowing unauthorised entry into the cockpit. He permitted a female friend entry into the cockpit on a Chandigarh- Leh flight earlier this month.
The woman friend is an Indian Air Force pilot, and remained inside the cockpit throughout the flight on June 3.
The regulator also suspended the co-pilot for a month for neither preventing the entry of the non-staff member as well as for failing to report the violation. Air India had reported the incident to the DGCA and suspended the pilot in command for six months and the co-pilot for a month.
