Visitors in cockpit, four pilots lose licence

NEW DELHI: Strict rules framed post 9/11 prohibiting entry of passengers into aircraft cockpits seem to exist only on paper. In the past one week, three flights — two mid-air and one on ground preparing to take off — saw pilots allowing either their children, their friend's kids or general passengers in large numbers into the cockpit.
The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) has suspended the flying licence of the four pilots who allowed their or their colleagues children inside the cockpit mid-air on two flights. And the pilot of the third flight who allowed passengers inside the cockpit of a plane on ground being prepared to take off has been derostered, or taken off flying duties.

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