If what I read is true (on the latest pilot scam to hit India), then anyone who is any kind of amateur driver (sure it starts with planes) can bribe that stinking new delhi civil aviation authority or forge some documents and FLY PLANES THAT U AND I SIT IN!!
Isn’t that shocking?
I mean when i hire a driver, and even if he has faked his license, when i take him for a test run, it takes less than a minute to find out that he is an amateur. If the case is really bad, I ask him him to park on the kerb and get out!
How can co-pilots and other personnel NOT detect that a pilot is a fake??
I mean does it take a massive HARD LANDING (what happened in the Indigo flight) and almost heart attacks of passengers to figure out that the pilot is a quack??
Can my paanwalla just get into the cockpit and start flying the plane??
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – TODAY WE HAVE BANARSI THAKUR FLYING OUR PLANE!!!
Who interviews these fake pilots in these airlines? I know Jet Airways has mock simulators that test these pilots in various situations – don’t the other airlines do the same?
Or is it just than same old concept of ‘anything goes’ and that since life is what God gave us, the Paanwalla – a child of God has the right to also take it away???
oh god, I am feeling sick and badly need a paan…