'Mental Health Is Not Unique To Pilots'

'AAIB preliminary report was more detailed than most people were expecting.' IMAGE: An Air India Airbus A321 aircraft takes off at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad.......

Search for bodies at Germanwings crash site ends

Investigators have ended their search for bodies in the Alps where a Germanwings passenger jet crashed last month, killing all 150 people on board, a local official said on Saturday. A French......

The Germanwings co-pilot who 'intentionally' set plane on descent

  On Thursday, a French prosecutor said that the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing into a mountain to......

'Open the damn door': Germanwings captain's last words before the crash

As the doomed Germanwings flight plunged into the French Alps, the captain locked out of the cockpit screamed to his co-pilot to “open the damn door!” A French rescue worker inspects......

AI junior pilots are 'stressed', forced to work overtime

An Air India pilots' body has urged DGCA to look into the issue of deployment of a section of its "stressed" junior pilots in the cockpit, days after the Germanwings plane crash. Stating that......

Air India hiring: 1 in 3 pilots fails psychological test

A stringent psychological test for pilots in the wake of the Germanwings disaster has led Air India to reject nearly a third of the prospective candidates. The airline might find it difficult to......

Indian carriers struggle to find talent inside cockpit

7,000 unemployed pilots in India but airlines continue to bet on expats Arav Joshi (26) completed his flying course from a New Zealand-based training academy in 2012. That did not translate into a......

Aspiring pilots move court against Air India

Three commercial pilot licence holders have moved the Delhi high court against Air India after being rejected in psychological screening during a recent recruitment drive. Air India had advertised......