Compelled to act as hijack like situation prevailed: AI pilot
The woman pilot of the Air India flight involved in the hijack alarm case on Wednesday stuck to her stand that she was compelled to act as ‘a hijack-like situation’ prevailed with protests by passenge
Venugopal should streamline Air India Express: Experts
K.C. Venugopal, the new minister of state for civil aviation after the cabinet reshuffle on Sunday, will have to work towards infusing changes in Air India Express, the budget airline of Air India, sa
Hijack drama: Minister’s clean chit to pilot
A high-level team of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) on Saturday, conducted a preliminary inquiry into the hijack scare created by the Air India Express pilot even as union civil aviation
We were portrayed as terrorists: Passengers of Abu Dhabi-Kochi flight
It was a harrowing 12 hours for passengers of the Air India Express (AIE) flight from Abu Dhabi to Kochi . Having been diverted to Thiruvananthapuram owing to fog early Friday morning, the passengers
Passengers fly into rage, woman pilot cries ‘hijack’
A hijack scare sounded by an Air India Express flight commander led to dramatic scenes at the airport here and at Nedumbassery in Kerala on Friday, putting 165 passengers, including women and infants,
High drama at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport
There was high drama at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport when the pilot of Air India Express flight 4422 from Abu Dhabi to Kochi sent out a hijack alert. Minutes later, security forces sur
Kerala CM orders probe into airport incident
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ordered a probe into the incident of protest by passengers of an Air India flight at the International Airport here today that led to a hijack alarm.
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Air India Express plays with lives of passengers
Endangering the lives of thousands of passengers, Air India Express, the low-cost arm of national carrier Air India, has been found to have violated the flight duty time limitation (FDTL) regulations
Possible collision of flights averted in Tiruchirappalli
A possible collision between a Jet Airways flight for Chennai and an Air India Express aircraft headed for Abudhabi was on Monday averted here when ATC personnel scrambled quickly and alerted the pilo
Pilot's stir: Seven flights of AI Express cancelled
Seven flights of Air India Express were cancelled with about 12 pilots of Air India's budget carrier reporting sick as negotiations between a section of pilots and the management over career progressi