14 Got Fake Licences At Raj School, 5 Of Them Work With Airlines
Jaipur: At least five of 14 “under-trained” pilots from the Rajasthan Aviation School may be flying hundreds of passengers on commercial airlines. An anti-corruption bureau probe has revealed these pilots, who were given flying licences without fulfilling the requisite flying hours, were working with Indian Airlines, JetLite, SpiceJet and a few yet-to-be identified airline companies.
Addl SP, ACB, Bhupendra Yadav, who is investigating the case for the past five months, claimed that names of at least 14 pilots have come up who were fraudulently issued CPLs (commercial pilot licence) by Mohindar Kumar Chaudhary, chief flying inspector of the Rajasthan state flying school, Sanganer airport, and his counterpart at Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation Mahavir Singh Beniwal. Additional general manager of Sanganer airport’s air traffic control (ATC) Manoj Jain was also suspected to have colluded with the the two. The three officers are now in judicial custody.
“Preliminary investigations suggest that at least five of the 14 persons, including Rahul Yadav, Anup Chaudhary, Amit Mundra, Nitin Jain and Rajesh Marani are working as pilots with airline companies, including Indian Airlines, SpiceJet and JetLite,” said Bhupendra Yadav. He said others including Neeraj Kumar, Sahil Malik, Priyeta Sharma, Sanjeev Gupta, Rajesh Mehta and Nidhi Vashistha are either engineers or are working in various departments of airline companies.
One Pallavi Hemaserg is working as an assistant pilot instructor in Nagpur. While Manoj Dhaka has migrated abroad, one Sumit Jain is said to be unemployed at present. ACB has already arrested one of these trainees, Rahul Yadav, who claims to have flown 1,000 hours for Indian Airlines. “These pilots will be arrested in course of investigation,” said IG, ACB, Umesh Mishra.
These students were recruited as pilots despite the fact that they underwent much less hours of flying training than those stipulated by the . “These people got the CPLs from 2004-2007 when there was boom in the airline industry and companies were offering lucrative packages to commercial pilots. Among the 14 pilots, there are some who were provided only 22 hours of flying training against the requirement of 200 hours,” Yadav said.
Addl SP, ACB, Bhupendra Yadav, who is investigating the case for the past five months, claimed that names of at least 14 pilots have come up who were fraudulently issued CPLs (commercial pilot licence) by Mohindar Kumar Chaudhary, chief flying inspector of the Rajasthan state flying school, Sanganer airport, and his counterpart at Haryana Institute of Civil Aviation Mahavir Singh Beniwal. Additional general manager of Sanganer airport’s air traffic control (ATC) Manoj Jain was also suspected to have colluded with the the two. The three officers are now in judicial custody.
“Preliminary investigations suggest that at least five of the 14 persons, including Rahul Yadav, Anup Chaudhary, Amit Mundra, Nitin Jain and Rajesh Marani are working as pilots with airline companies, including Indian Airlines, SpiceJet and JetLite,” said Bhupendra Yadav. He said others including Neeraj Kumar, Sahil Malik, Priyeta Sharma, Sanjeev Gupta, Rajesh Mehta and Nidhi Vashistha are either engineers or are working in various departments of airline companies.
One Pallavi Hemaserg is working as an assistant pilot instructor in Nagpur. While Manoj Dhaka has migrated abroad, one Sumit Jain is said to be unemployed at present. ACB has already arrested one of these trainees, Rahul Yadav, who claims to have flown 1,000 hours for Indian Airlines. “These pilots will be arrested in course of investigation,” said IG, ACB, Umesh Mishra.
These students were recruited as pilots despite the fact that they underwent much less hours of flying training than those stipulated by the . “These people got the CPLs from 2004-2007 when there was boom in the airline industry and companies were offering lucrative packages to commercial pilots. Among the 14 pilots, there are some who were provided only 22 hours of flying training against the requirement of 200 hours,” Yadav said.
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