New Delhi: India has for the first time propose to carry out drug tests on pilots, cabin crew and air traffic controllers (ATCOS) randomly.
Anyone who wants to be a pilot can be asked to undergo a test for psychoactive substances before entering the flight school.
Positive flight personnel testing for the second time can have the license suspended for three years and the third positive test can mean the cancellation of the license.
Drugs to be tested include amphetamines, methamphants, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, inherited, benzodizipine and mdma or ecstasy.
The flight crew members and other major flight personnel in the operation were maintained by the breath test to ensure they were not drunk when reporting work.
Head of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Arun Kumar Wednesday issued a government draft on “flight personnel examination procedures for consumption of psychoactive substances” which will be resolved immediately and then mandatory to take airlines and airport operators.
At least 5% of Members of the Airlines and ATCOS crew need to be subject to randomized tests every year.
In addition, regulators have “encouraged” maintenance and repair organizations and flying training organizations (FTO) also to carry out this random test, in the Trainee pilot in the last case.
ATC members or flight crew refuses to undergo this test must undergo a test within three days.
This failure, the license “must be deferred for a period of one year and the person involved will undergo a rehabilitation process before returning to the active task.” And if someone rejects the test for the second time or tested positive after the first rejection, “the license must be deferred for three years and each further violation will lead to the cancellation of the license.” The design of the rule proposes that the flight organization “ensure that aircraft crew members, ATCOS, aircraft maintenance engineers / certification staff, training pilots and instructors / testers in their work are tested to detect drug abuse / Habupation (this) event: before hiring someone; before Recognize the pilot trainee on FTO; testing follow-up of confirmed cases and on the first opportunity available, if flight personnel have refused drug tests to foreign regulators during flight operations to the country.
“” After alcohol, marijuana and opioaf are psychoactive substances.
which is commonly used in India …
has an impact on safety in civil aviation.
Therefore there is a need to prepare a preventive mechanism.
(This) establishes the procedure for the identification of flight personnel involved in the use of psychoactive substances and actions on them, “Draf said about Why is this rule needed.
Tests will be carried out on urine samples collected from randomly selected employees.
All positive cases must be reported by the organization to DGCA within 24 hours.
All of these flight organizations “must encourage their employees to the self-declaration of the use of psychoactive substances” so that they can be sent for rehabilitation before being allowed to return to active tasks.
“In terms of positive screening tests, employees will be removed immediately from the sensitive task of safety until the confirmation report is received,” said the design while detailing the action for the first, second and third confirmation report.
Airline staff to face random drug tests
