{"id":33794,"date":"2026-08-19T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/dgca-tightens-drug-testing-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:30:09","slug":"dgca-tightens-drug-testing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/dgca-tightens-drug-testing-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"DGCA Tightens Drug Testing Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/19\/ake-flight-13-08-20261786540304_1787142167.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/19\/ake-flight-13-08-20261786540304_1787142167.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/08\/19\/ake-flight-13-08-20261786540304_1787142167.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Top official told ANI that airlines must randomly test more than 25% of their flight crew annually for psychoactive substances through urine samples. The DGCA is expected to apply the stricter testing requirement to all Indian airlines.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Following the Phuket-Delhi flight incident, the pilot of Air India flight AI-2379 has been de-rostered. Air India has also been conducting comprehensive screening of all its group pilots since August 13 for substances and medications prohibited under prevailing regulations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">The airline is submitting the test reports to the DGCA, which is examining the findings. The preliminary report on AI-2379 is expected within the next 10 days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe frameborder=\"0\" srcdoc=\"\" title=\"twitter\" class=\"twitter\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top official told ANI that airlines must randomly test more than 25% of their flight crew annually for psychoactive substances through urine samples. The DGCA is expected to apply the stricter testing requirement to all Indian airlines. Following the Phuket-Delhi flight incident, the pilot of Air India flight AI-2379 has been de-rostered. Air India has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24071,22802,29909,29911,29914,29910,29912,29913],"class_list":["post-33794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-air-india","tag-aviation-safety","tag-dgca","tag-drug-testing-rules","tag-indian-airlines","tag-phuket-incident","tag-pilot-screening","tag-psychoactive-substances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}