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NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented move, the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) filed a police complaint against 34 pilots of four airlines — Jet, IndiGo, Spice-Jet and GoAir — who are participants in a WhatsApp group for "making obscene remarks" against a senior regulatory official.
Based on this, 13 pilots were called to the DGCA office on Tuesday morning from where they were taken to the Lodhi Road police station. They were allowed to go in the evening after being questioned. Police seized phones of four pilots for the probe.
The 34 pilots are part of a WhatsApp group that was allegedly circulating messages with Hindi expletives against a joint DG. One of the pilots forwarded the abusive message by mistake to the official, after which the police complaint was filed. The airlines have unconditionally apologised to the joint DG.
DGCA chief B S Bhullar said his agency "has filed police complaint against 34 pilots for making obscene remarks against our officials on social media. Any action on that is for the police". A SpiceJet spokesperson said: "No SpiceJet pilot has written any derogatory or obscene message against any DGCA official... One of our pilots had just forwarded some WhatsApp messages to a few friends and colleagues."
IndiGo spokesman Ajay Jasra said: "We are looking into the charges... We will take appropriate action based on findings of our internal inquiry." Jet Airways confirmed some of its pilots were called for questioning. "The matter is under investigation and we are therefore unable to comment," the Jet statement said.
As first reported by TOI on Monday, the bad blood between pilots and the official happened when they addressed him wrongly in a mail to oppose the doubling of notice period for commanders to a year. Instead of saying joint DG, the letter addressed him as "joint director", several notches below his position. Following this, DGCA asked the airline to check the mental "alertness" of 10 of its pilots and see if they are fit enough to be allowed to fly.
The 34 pilot members of the WhatsApp group against whom the DGCA filed a police complaint are, however, not the pilots who wrongly addressed the joint DG in their mails. Later, some pilots who had addressed him wrongly sent him another mail, which started with an "unconditional apology" for getting his designation wrong.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...st-34-abusive-pilots/articleshow/59026938.cms
Based on this, 13 pilots were called to the DGCA office on Tuesday morning from where they were taken to the Lodhi Road police station. They were allowed to go in the evening after being questioned. Police seized phones of four pilots for the probe.
The 34 pilots are part of a WhatsApp group that was allegedly circulating messages with Hindi expletives against a joint DG. One of the pilots forwarded the abusive message by mistake to the official, after which the police complaint was filed. The airlines have unconditionally apologised to the joint DG.
DGCA chief B S Bhullar said his agency "has filed police complaint against 34 pilots for making obscene remarks against our officials on social media. Any action on that is for the police". A SpiceJet spokesperson said: "No SpiceJet pilot has written any derogatory or obscene message against any DGCA official... One of our pilots had just forwarded some WhatsApp messages to a few friends and colleagues."
IndiGo spokesman Ajay Jasra said: "We are looking into the charges... We will take appropriate action based on findings of our internal inquiry." Jet Airways confirmed some of its pilots were called for questioning. "The matter is under investigation and we are therefore unable to comment," the Jet statement said.
As first reported by TOI on Monday, the bad blood between pilots and the official happened when they addressed him wrongly in a mail to oppose the doubling of notice period for commanders to a year. Instead of saying joint DG, the letter addressed him as "joint director", several notches below his position. Following this, DGCA asked the airline to check the mental "alertness" of 10 of its pilots and see if they are fit enough to be allowed to fly.
The 34 pilot members of the WhatsApp group against whom the DGCA filed a police complaint are, however, not the pilots who wrongly addressed the joint DG in their mails. Later, some pilots who had addressed him wrongly sent him another mail, which started with an "unconditional apology" for getting his designation wrong.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...st-34-abusive-pilots/articleshow/59026938.cms
