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DGCA seeks crashed AI plane's pilot training data
Mint Kolkata
|June 18, 2025
India's aviation watchdog asked Air India for training records of the pilots and dispatcher for the plane that crashed last week, as part of its investigation into the incident that killed at least 271 people, government memos showed.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) also asked all flying schools to conduct training compliance checks, as per the memos.
This story is from the June 18, 2025 edition of Mint Kolkata.
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