Indore: Pilot killed as plane on training sortie crashes

A pilot was on Wednesday killed and an instructor accompanying him injured when the Madhya Pradesh Flying Club-owned Cessna aircraft they were flying crashed at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport in......

Profile of Columbia crewmembers

Kalpana Chawla and her colleagues died while space shuttle Columbia crashed in Texas. Following is a short profile of the crewmembers.Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist:She did her college......

Peeing incident: 6 unions urge DGCA to revoke action against AI pilot

A joint forum of six unions on Tuesday appealed to aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation to revoke the suspension of the licence of the pilot-in-command of the Air India flight......

Rudy flies Sukhoi-30 MKI, performs aerial acrobatics

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Thursday flew in Sukhoi-30 MKI, the frontline fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force at Aero India 2015 air show on Bengaluru."It was quite an......

Air India fails pilot licence rule

A little over 100 Air India pilots failed to undergo the compulsory bi-annual simulator checks within the stipulated  six-month period because of a change in regulations last year, the......

10,000 commercial pilot licenses under DGCA scrutiny

Aviation regulator DGCA plans to bring under the scanner over 10,000 commercial pilot license (CPL) holders and conduct third-party audit of all flying schools in the country in the wake of cases......

Fake licence scam: 9 pilots arrested so far

Two pilots working with private airlines were arrested for allegedly procuring commercial flying licences using forged marksheets, taking the total number of people arrested in such cases to 17.......

Fake pilot scam: Another arrest made

Delhi police has arrested a pilot working with a private airline for procuring a commercial pilot license by allegedly submitting fake marksheets.With the arrest of Swarn Singh, police has arrested......