Govt suspends ops by flying school operator
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The civil aviation ministry on Tuesday suspended the operations of Kanpur-based flying training organisation (FTO) Garg Aviation "until further notice", following a series of complaints alleging safety and regulatory violations at the flight school, multiple people aware of the matter told HT.
Garg Aviation was recently involved in a fatal crash in which a pilot and an instructor were killed in Kanpur on August 27. Separately, a trainee pilot was injured following a landing incident in June, according to people aware of the matter.
"The DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has suspended the FTO's operations on the ministry's direction," a civil aviation ministry official told HT.
"It is also learnt that the FT...
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