{"id":41796,"date":"2018-01-03T23:29:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41796"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:27:04","slug":"indian-pilot-slapped-female-colleague-midair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41796","title":{"rendered":"Indian pilot slapped female colleague midair\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Jan. 3 (TNS):\u00a0<\/strong>India\u2019s private airline Jet Airways\u00a0on Wednesday grounded two of its senior commanders for fighting inside the cockpit of a\u00a0London-Mumbai flight\u00a0on January 1. The commander flying as co-pilot allegedly slapped the lady commander mid-flight after which she left the cockpit in tears.<\/p>\n<p>After great persuation, the lady pilot went back to the cockpit but reportedly came out in a huff shortly afterwards. This time, a frightened cabin crew, fearing for everyone&#8217;s safety, requested her to go back to the controls and operate the flight to its destination. Luckily, the plane landed safely.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Directorate General of Civil Aviation\u00a0(DGCA) has suspended the licence of the male co-pilot and ordered a probe into the entire episode.<\/p>\n<p>This unprecedented cockpit fight happened on 9W 119 soon after Jet&#8217;s Boeing 777 took off for its 9-hour journey to Mumbai with 324 passengers and 14 crew members on board on New Year&#8217;s Day at 10am (UK time).<\/p>\n<p>Both the pilots of this flight were commanders and the lady was captaining 9W 119 while the other was the co-pilot for this sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shortly after the plane took off, the two pilots had a fight. The co-pilot slapped the lady commander and she left the cockpit in tears. She stood in the galley sobbing.<\/p>\n<p> The cabin crew tried to comfort her and send her back to the cockpit, but in vain. The co-pilot also kept buzzing (calling from the intercom in the cockpit) the crew, asking them to send the second pilot back,&#8221; said sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jan. 3 (TNS):\u00a0India\u2019s private airline Jet Airways\u00a0on Wednesday grounded two of its senior commanders for fighting inside the cockpit of a\u00a0London-Mumbai flight\u00a0on January 1. The commander flying as co-pilot allegedly slapped the lady commander mid-flight after which she left the cockpit in tears. After great persuation, the lady pilot went back to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,736],"tags":[932,737],"class_list":["post-41796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-new-delhi","tag-international","tag-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102400,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41796\/revisions\/102400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}