Consider some of the key findings of its inquiry:

• Discrepancies in flying records maintained by the academy and the logs of the pilots showing that many more flying hours were being attributed to pilots than were being logged.

• Records of pilots in the authorisation book and journey log book don’t match Carver’s official records.

• As early as June last year, the academy had had its authorization suspended since they were doing night-flying training without authorization from the DGCA.

• Senior Indian Air Force officials located in the Pune station were questioned by the DGCA and the police since academy officials had allegedly forged stamps and signatures of Air Traffic Controllers of the IAF station on flight-test certificates. Air Officer Command of the Pune station told DGCA that no Carver flight ever landed at Pune Air Force.

• CEO Marc Carvalho was aware of the irregularities in the academy going on since January 2007 as he himself stated but he never reported the same to the DGCA.

• No official appointment letters were issued to the Chief Flying Instructor and other instructors indicating “intention of tax evasion.”

• All the 25 Flight Test Reports have been carried out by Captain A Taxali, CFI without actually carrying out the flight test. Student-pilots also became a party to the forgery by appending counter signature on the flight-test reports.

When The Sunday Express visited the academy yesterday, it appeared to be business as usual with a fresh batch of aspirant pilots taking off and landing their Cessnas.

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