The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is mulling a plan to make it compulsory for airlines to install cameras in their planes' cockpits so that pilots could be kept under watch.

It is the several shocking stories of on-duty pilots' shocking behavior that forced the civil aviation regulator to mull a plan to make cameras mandatory in cockpits.

In the most recent shocking case of pilots' behaviour, two Air India pilots left the plane's control in the hands of airhostesses so that they could take a nap in the business class during a flight from Bangkok to Delhi. Previously, an Air India pilot landed plane in Mumbai without getting ATC clearance.

An official from the DGCA office, "The directorate general of civil aviation is seriously deliberating having cameras in the cockpit in the interest of flight safety as pilots would know they are under watch."

DGAC is of the view that cameras would act as a deterrent for pilots' any irresponsible behavior inside the cockpit that could jeopardize flight safety.

The official added that the proposal was floated by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and that the directorate's flight standards department was working on the proposal.

However, the plan will most probably be opposed by both pilots and airlines. While pilots will oppose any such move on the ground that they would lose their privacy; airlines will oppose as they would have to bear extra expense for installing cameras and then downloading and maintaining the content.