More airline pilots in India have had their licences cancelled after they were found to have been forging their qualifications.
The scandal has seen 14 more commercial pilots caught after police checks.
The cases of pilots exaggerating their flying time while training and other irregularities emerged after a captain who made several bad landings was found to have submitted faked paperwork to gain her licence.
At least six pilots, including those from Air India, Indigo and SpiceJet, have already been arrested as authorities check thousands of licences.
India’s directorate general of civil aviation chief E.K. Bharat Bhusan told news agency AFP: “We have cancelled the licences of 14 pilots who were flying passenger planes. All of them had submitted fake training records.”
The 14 pilots had procured their eligibility certificates from the Rajasthan State Flying School in western India, where police are checking instructors’ logbooks.
A pilot needs to have completed a minimum 200 hours of flying to get a licence but several of the pilots from the Rajasthan flying school had only completed 50-60 hours, according to reports.