in the fake licence scam that includes two pilots – IndiGo pilot Parminder Kaur Gulati and Air India’s J K Verma.
Sources in the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that a twelve member committee would probe charges that several insiders had a role in the churning of tampered and fudged pilot licences.
Besides submitting its report in six weeks’ time, the committee would offer opinions on how well to contain the rut and cleanse the system. It would also suggest correct the fault lines in the examination process of accreditation of commanders in airlines.
A Joint Secretary in the Civil Aviation ministry would supervise the committee’s findings.
The committee will also include independent aviation analysts, seniors from the National Informatics Centre, and experts from Air India and specialists from the Indian Air Force.
Earlier the DGCA had announced setting up of an independent body of experts that would probe into the functioning of flying schools that included not just the quality aspect but also infrastructure and scanning of records that go to the making of licences for aspiring pilots.
