More than 30 p.c of civilian pilots in Pakistan, roughly 1 in each 3, are not qualified to fly and have fake licenses, aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan mentioned on Wednesday as reported by CNN.
While addressing the nationwide meeting, Khan mentioned that over 260 pilots in Pakistan had paid another person to take exams on their behalf.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has grounded all its pilots with fake licenses with rapid impact. The nation has over 850 energetic pilots serving numerous home airways, together with the nation’s flagship airline PIA, and different international carriers.
The findings have been revealed after an investigation was led right into a PIA plane crash in Karachi last month that killed practically 100 folks.
Khan, on Wednesday, advised Parliament that the pilots of the PIA airplane that crashed on May 22 have been not focussed throughout the flight, news company PTI reported.
He identified their “overconfidence and lack of concentration” as some of the explanations for the tragedy that killed 97 folks on board.
“The pilot ignored the instructions of the air traffic controllers and the ATC, on the other hand, did not inform the pilot about the engine colliding… the pilots were discussing corona throughout the flight. They were not focussed. They talked about corona […] their families were affected. When the control tower asked him to increase the plane’s height, the pilot said ‘I’ll manage’. There was overconfidence,” Khan advised the nationwide meeting on Wednesday whereas presenting the interim investigation report on the airplane crash.
The Airbus A320 plane from Lahore to Karachi crashed in a residential space close to the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on May 22. It was carrying 91 passengers and a crew of eight aboard earlier than it crashed into the Jinnah Garden space close to Model Colony in Malir, minutes earlier than touchdown.
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