Population & Talent Control thread
Population & Talent Control thread
Mar 24, 2011
Cockpit fraud: fears grow over India's fake pilots
NEW DELHI - INDIA'S fake pilot scandal began unravelling when a female captain landed her packed airliner on the nose instead of the rear wheels as she touched down in the holiday hotspot of Goa.
Parminder Kaur Gulati, flying for the fastest-growing airline in the booming Indian sector, IndiGo, was investigated for the dangerous error in January and was found with falsified qualifications. She has since been fired and arrested.
The case set alarm bells ringing for passengers, anxious about the idea of a semi-trained fraud being responsible for their lives, and for airline bosses, who have been hiring crew at a furious pace in recent years.
Since the discovery of Gulati, at least five other pilots have been arrested working for low-cost flier SpiceJet, national flag carrier Air India and smaller regional airline MDLR.
India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which is responsible for pilot examinations and granting licences, has announced it will look into the credentials of 4,000 commercial airline pilots.
More arrests are expected. -- AFP
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“It’s as bad as doctors or surgeons who fake their certificates and put people’s lives at risk,” says Baijayant Panda, a member of parliament from the eastern state of Orissa.
“But it’s not limited to aviation in India. In many fields, you have a lot of fakery going on,” the lawmaker, seen as part of a new breed of young Indian politicians, told a debate show on NDTV television last week.
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Imagine unknowingly putting your life in d hands of such fakes.
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- KiasuGrandMaster
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for China chinese airlines, trust only Air China because they carry the national leaders.Way2GO wrote:China aviation safety record has improved over the years.
Keep any findings coming
for benefit of fellow forummers.
hard to trust those start up and those China budget airlines
everything in China could be fake, except fake tooth (denture) and fake hair (wig) are genuine products = fake !
所有的东西都有假的,只有假牙和假髮是真的.
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if we move away from being overly obsessed with paper qualifications, and to hire based on proven ability to do a task and track record in work experience, we would be able to get rid of quite a lot of fake qualifications.pinky wrote:I read a ST report recently that there is an increase in the number of fake degrees and credentials being exposed here. The highest no. of cases come from IT sector, followed by services sector.
well saidverykiasu2010 wrote:if we move away from being overly obsessed with paper qualifications, and to hire based on proven ability to do a task and track record in work experience, we would be able to get rid of quite a lot of fake qualifications.pinky wrote:I read a ST report recently that there is an increase in the number of fake degrees and credentials being exposed here. The highest no. of cases come from IT sector, followed by services sector.
so sad the HR people never understand such a simple logic :x