Air India Delhi-Moscow Flight Returns As Pilot Has COVID, Probe Ordered

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Air India Flights: The Air India Delhi-Moscow plane returned midway after the pilot was found infected with corona virus

 

New Delhi:

The aviation regulator DGCA will order a probe into a "lapse" after an empty Air India plane flying from Delhi to Moscow returned midway when the pilot was found infected with coronavirus.

The state-run carrier's ground team realised the pilot was a COVID-19 patient only after the Airbus A320NEO had taken off.

Sources in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA said "prima facie, this appears to be a lapse" as the pilot was not supposed to be on the plane if he was found positive.

Air India conducts at least 200 coronavirus tests a day in Delhi alone for all its crew ahead of all flights that they operate. The results of these tests are centrally processed by the airline.

The Air India plane took off from Delhi after 7 am today and returned to the national capital at 12:30 pm, sources said.

The crew has been quarantined. Another plane will be sent to Moscow to bring back Indians, officials said.

"Air India this morning recalled its aircraft operating Delhi-Moscow without passengers immediately when it was noticed that one of the cockpit crew had tested positive in the pre-flight COVID-19 test," the airline said in a statement.

"On return, immediately after landing, all cockpit and cabin crew have been tested and all laid down medical precautions are being taken to ensure their health and safety. Another aircraft has taken off today to operate the Vande Bharat flight for Moscow to Delhi," Air India said.

Pilots are tested for coronavirus before they are allowed to fly.

So far 45,000 Indians have been flown home from abroad under the centre's "Vande Bharat Mission" that was launched on May 7 to repatriate stranded Indians amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. It said one lakh more will be flown home till June 13.

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Moscow bound Air India flight returns midway after pilot found Covid-19 positive

The flight being operated under the Vande Bharat mission was half way over Central Asia, when it was called back.

 

NEW DELHI: A special ferry flight of national carrier Air India which took-off from Delhi for Moscow on Saturday returned back after a crew member was found Covid-19 positive.

The flight being operated under the Vande Bharat mission was half way over Central Asia, when it was called back.

According to sources, the airline's medical staff which is overseeing the massive testing campaign of its crew, mistook the pilot's test report as 'Negative' while he had tested 'Positive' for Covid-19.

Subsequently, the aircraft was informed and the SoPs meant for such situations were immediately implemented.

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According to sources, the airline's medical staff which is overseeing the massive testing campaign of its crew, mistook the pilot's test report as 'Negative' while he had tested 'Positive' for Covid-19.

 

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Air India's Moscow bound flight on Saturday was forced to return back to Delhi from midway after the ground team found out that the pilot was COVID-19 positive. The flight had to be called back from over Uzbekistan after an oversight by the team checking pre-flight test reports mistakenly passed on the captain's test reports which read positive as negative. 

The Airbus A-320 Neo, was a ferry flight to Moscow comprising of only the crew and was meant to repatriate Indians from Moscow. The flight returned to Delhi at approximately 12:30 pm and as per the regulations, the crew has been quarantined. The airline is set to send another flight on Saturday afternoon to bring back the stranded Indians. 

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Just now, Kool_SRG said:

The flight had to be called back from over Uzbekistan after an oversight by the team checking pre-flight test reports mistakenly passed on the captain's test reports which read positive as negative. 

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