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BEIJING, March 15 (Reuters) – China’s aviation regulator stated on Monday it’s suspending Donghai Airways from including new routes, flights and capability after concluding an investigation right into a mid-air dispute between crew members on a current home flight.
The pilot, who, in accordance with media outlet Caixin, blamed the top flight attendant for not clearing his technique to the toilet, can have his license revoked, Wu Shijie, deputy director of the Workplace of Aviation Security on the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), informed a month-to-month briefing.
Wu didn’t specify how lengthy the restrictions on routes, flights and capability would final.
He additionally didn’t provide the main points on the mid-air struggle. Media experiences, citing an aviation-focused Wechat account, stated the struggle between the 2 males had damaged out 50 minutes earlier than the flight landed and each males had been injured.
Shenzhen-based Donghai stated in an announcement on Monday that the pilot and the top flight attendant would by no means work for the airline once more, and that three vice presidents had misplaced their positions and would have their pay docked by 10,000-20,000 yuan (($1,538-$3,076).
A couple of dozen of mid-level administration officers would additionally obtain public criticism and have some pay docked, the airline stated.
China has grow to be far stricted in implementing aviation security, sustaining a powerful security report for over a decade.
In 2018, CAAC ha decreased Air China’s 601111.SS Boeing 737 flights by 10% and cancelled licenses of the pilot and co-pilot after it discovered the co-pilot was smoking an e-cigarette, resulting in an emergency touchdown.
($1 = 6.5023 Chinese language yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Stella Qiu in Beijing and Jamie Freed in Sydney; Enhancing by Muralikumar Anantharaman & Simon Cameron-Moore)
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