Safety & Regulation
DGCA moves to test more than a quarter of India's flight crew for drugs each year
India's regulator is preparing to lift mandatory random psychoactive-substance screening of airline crew from 10 per cent to more than 25 per cent a year, weeks after an Air India captain returned a positive confirmatory test. Pilots want saliva testing and procedural safeguards added at the same time.
23 August 2026 · 11 minRajkumar Agarwal
