New Delhi: The Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA) on Thursday plans to sue Kerala MP P V Abdul Wahab for defamation and have him banned from flights for allegedly calling a pilot a “glorified pilot” and “endangering flying operations”.
Wahab, a prominent businessman and Rajya Sabha MP, was forced to get off a Kozhikode-Kochi flight while he was en route to Dubai on Monday morning after an argument with flight captain Rajat Rana. Wahab plans to move a privilege motion in Parliament Rana.
The ICPA, in turn, accuses Wahab of conducting a "serious" breach of security norms and endangering the flight. “If he will not apologise, we will go to IFALPA—the umbrella body of all the pilots in the world—which may lead to him being barred to travel in any airline in the world,” said ICPA president Captain Kapil Raina.
Raina alleged Wahab has breached an air safety rule which says: "No person shall interfere with the commander or with members of the operating crew of an aircraft or tamper with the aircraft or its equipments or conduct himself in a disorderly manner with the passengers or crew."
Wahab, who is based in Dubai, insists that he never entered the cockpit.
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