DGCA suspended licence of Air India pilot failing pre-flight breath-analyzer test | Master Stroke (12.11.2018)

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday suspended the licence of Air India's senior pilot Arvind Kathpalia for three years, a day after he failed a pre-flight breath-analyzer test.

Kathpalia, who is also the Director of Operations at the flag carrier, failed a pre-flight alcohol detection test on Sunday. He was supposed to have piloted a New Delhi-London flight.