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Indian students stranded in U.S. after their Aviation Academy abruptly shut-down

By Riti, Section News
Posted on Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 02:22:13 AM EST

In California, more than 100 Indian students training to be pilots have been left stranded after their Aviation Academy abruptly shut-down. The students have been served with an eviction notice and asked to vacate the Academy premises by Friday (June 27).

The students were reportedly a part of a Commercial Pilot Training Programme, jointly tun by Kingfisher Airlines and American School of Aviation or ASA. Students claimed they paid 46,000 dollars for the programme.

Following which the students were handed a letter of intent by Kingfisher Airlines in India offering them jobs as co-pilots on completing training with ASA and getting their CPL Licence and subsequent conversion from the DGCA.      

However, the school suddenly suspended its flight training last month, claiming their school was being  restructured. Students were later told the school had been shut down for defaulting in payments over fuel and insurance bills.

Mikhail Dmello, a student of the Aviation Academy expressed himself and said, "We are students of the American school of Aviation. Our school has been closed for the past six weeks. The management has tried to keep us satisfied by telling us there is a deal going through in order to get the school brought over. But now it turns out none of it is true. They have been just keeping us on hold and today issued a notice telling us to evacuate the academy in the next two days due to the non payment of water and electricity bills."

A disheartened Dmello added, "There have been a lot of false promises and we are helpless and have no where to go. We are looking forward to external support from the Indian Embassy and the Indian government. We spoke to Kingfisher and they said that they are looking into the case and are trying their level best to resolve issues."

Source:TimesNow 26thJune2008.

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