 "Suspended Air India pilot Arvind Kathpalia, over failed alcohol test, removed from post of operations director")
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday removed Capt Arvind Kathpalia from the post of Air India’s Director of Operations, a day after aviation regulator DGCA suspended his flying licence for three years for failure to clear pre-flight alcohol test. [caption id=“attachment_5054011” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Capt Amitabh Singh, currently executive director for training, has been given additional charge of the post, a Civil Aviation ministry order stated, while noting that the action was taken against Kathpalia due to “failure to course correct” even after earlier suspension of flying licence for three months in February 2017 for skipping breath analyser test. Kathpalia, who is also an AI board member, was grounded by the airline on Sunday after he tested positive for alcohol twice in as many breath analyser (BA) tests before he was to operate Air India’s New Delhi-London flight.
Correction: Air India's Captain Arvind Kathpalia relieved from the charge of Director Operations with immediate effect. He was suspended for 3 years* after he failed the Breath Analyser (BA) Test before his flight. (Earlier tweet will be deleted) https://t.co/eKlIH80Z2J
— ANI (@ANI) November 13, 2018
“Taking (in consideration) serious nature of the transgression and failure to course correct even after earlier suspension of flying licence for three months, the minister of civil aviation has accorded approval for relieving Capt Arvind Kathpalia from the charge of director of operations of Air India Ltd with immediate effect,” the ministry order said. Kathpalia was taken off flying duties earlier also in February 2017 and his licence suspended for three months after he skipped the BA test before a flight when he was working as an executive director for operations. He was subsequently removed from the post of executive director, operations. In March the government appointed him to the post of Director of Operations.
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