Pilot refuses to fly beyond duty hours

Passengers of an Indian flight had to wait for over three hours before their flight left New Delhi airport for Kolkata. This happened after the pilot scheduled to fly the plane refused to fly the aircraft on the grounds that he had completed his scheduled number of hours in duty.
The harassed passengers were flown to Kolkata only after another pilot was rushed in to take over the scheduled flight. By refusing to fly the scheduled flight, the pilot inconvenienced the passengers but he was well within what the rules of his job dictated.
According to norms decided by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Flight Duty Time Limitation for a pilot is 11 hours.
22/02/07 Suparna Dey/Times Now.tv

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