{"id":1611,"date":"2018-11-12T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2018-11-12T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:21:30","slug":"air-india-pilot-found-drunk-before-takeoff-suspended-for-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/12\/air-india-pilot-found-drunk-before-takeoff-suspended-for-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilot found drunk before takeoff suspended for 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Kathpalia, a senior Air India pilot who failed a pre-flight breath analyser test on Sunday, has lost his licence. India&#8217;s civil aviation regulator DGCA says he&#8217;s been suspended for three years. Air India sources said Kathpalia was a\u00a0repeat offender. In 2017, his flying licence was\u00a0suspended for three months\u00a0after he allegedly skipped a pre-flight medical test.\u00a0Rule 24 of the\u00a0Aircraft Rules\u00a0prohibits crew members from consuming any alcoholic drink 12 hours before the start of a flight. Alcohol tests are mandatory both before and after operating a flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1612\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1612 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/air_india_flight_2_0-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/air_india_flight_2_0-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/air_india_flight_2_0-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/air_india_flight_2_0-390x220.jpeg 390w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/air_india_flight_2_0.jpeg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air India pilot found drunk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arvind Kathpalia, a senior Air India pilot who failed a pre-flight breath analyser test on Sunday, has lost his licence. India&#8217;s civil aviation regulator DGCA says he&#8217;s been suspended for three years. Air India sources said Kathpalia was a\u00a0repeat offender. In 2017, his flying licence was\u00a0suspended for three months\u00a0after he allegedly skipped a pre-flight medical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1728],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-air-india"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}