New Delhi: India has suspended a pilot for accidentally sending a hijack alert to air traffic control during a domestic flight last month, the aviation authority said. The AirAsia India plane, flying from the capital New Delhi to Srinagar, suffered a stalled engine and the captain told first officer Ravi Raj to send an emergency code to alert authorities about the situation. Instead of the appropriate code 7700, Raj transmitted 7500 -- the code for a hijacking -- India’s Director General of Civil Aviation said in a statement on Friday. Such a transmission is considered a major security alert across the world. Precise details of the response from Indian authorities during the incident were not available. (AFP)
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India grounds pilot for sending hijack alert by mistake
Jul 21, 2019