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DGCA debars air traffic controller for using psychoactive substance
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has penalised an air traffic controller (ATC) at the Delhi Airport after he tested positive for a psychoactive substance
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US's first remote air traffic control centre to be built in Alabama
A company is seeking to build the country's first-ever remote air traffic control centre, which could handle traffic for multiple airports, on the site of an old Air Force base in Alabama
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ATC suspended for okaying IndiGo flights that came too close post take off
The incident was called "breach of separation", which happens when two aircraft cross the minimum mandatory vertical or horizontal distance in the airspace.
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SpiceJet flights stopped by Delhi ATC for non-payment of airport user fees
AAI has put SpiceJet on 'cash and carry' mode since 2020, due to the airline's inability to clear airport dues
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Flight crew, air traffic controllers to be tested for drugs from January
If a personnel is found positive in a drug test for the second time during work, his or her licence will be suspended for three years
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Delhi HC permits breath analyser tests for air traffic controllers
Delhi HC permitted conducting breath analyser tests through tube process for air traffic controllers while allowing modification in its earlier order suspending the same in view of the Covid-19
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DGCA conducts surprise alcohol tests on airside staff at Mumbai airport
At present, the breath analyser test for these personnel is carried out at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Cochin, Lucknow and Guwahati airports.
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DGCA proposes breath analyser test for air traffic controllers, others
The move comes after several instances were reported threatening safety
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Rs 9,500-crore DIAL project to increase airport's capacity goes to L&T
The operator expects that after the expansion, Terminal 1 will have an overall handling capacity of 85 million passengers per year
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Inform cases of communicable disease onboard to ATC: DGCA
ATCs ensure safe and expeditious flow of air traffic
