Captain Dhruv Rebbapragada rejoins IndiGo as head of flight safety

NEW DELHI: Captain Dhruv Rebbapragada has rejoined IndiGo as the head of flight safety . A pilot with nearly 40 years of experience, he had joined erstwhile Vayudoot in May 1987 as a first officer before moving to erstwhile Indian Airlines two years later. He then moved to IndiGo in 2011 as head of flight safety. He quit the airline eight years later to join Airbus as the regional safety director for South Asia.

He quit Airbus this June. Captain Rebbapragada is learnt to have been approached by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau to join the team probing AI 171 crash due to his experience as an accident investigator, which he declined. On Aug 1, 2025, he rejoined IndiGo as head of flight safety.