Two pilots grounded

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 10. The Director-General Civil Aviation, Mr. H.S. Khola, today grounded two Jet Airways pilots charging them with negligence while carrying out ``heavy landing'' of Boeing 737-400 with 122 people on board at Mangalore on Friday.

The decision to suspend the licences of the pilot and the co- pilot was reached following an inquiry by the DGCA into the incident and decoding of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder.

Sources said that as per rules, the Commander should have carried out the landing at the airport which is surrounded by hills and has a runway of 5000 feet.

The pilot is reported to have left the job to the co-pilot. The flight was commandeered by Captain Ron Rodridgues and was co- piloted by Captain Aparna Raghunadhan.

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