PIA has 860 registered pilots out of 40 percent has fake degrees.262 licenses fake. Minister

[HAIDER]

So let me get this straight Imran Khan, who never held a government position or had more than a single seat prior to 2013 is at fault for the incompetence of three prior governments and the sole reason why PIA is not privatised??

From an ideological standpoint I agree with him that some national assets must be maintained, a national airline is one of them. From a practical standpoint its clear that PIA was in debt and the state would get virtually nothing were it to be sold off, so it made no sense to sell it off.

Something that still makes no sense is why this is Imran Khans fault exactly. Musharaf, Zardari, and Nawaz all had at least 5 years and majority governments yet did nothing. Imran Khan is running a minority government and has only been in power for 2 years. How exactly is he at fault here?



Cant fire them because of (PPP-run) unions and crooked courts.

Yes the govt is powerless, Pakistan is a parliamentary democracy which means that any government that doesnt have the majority of seats has to appease coalition partners and the opposition to do anything.

Someone should provide the list of 262 pilots around the world. So, these pilots won't allow to fly International flights. These pilots not only danger for Pakistan, but also danger other countries.

 

[War Thunder]

A bomb shell dropped by minister sahib in NA session during PIA crash investigation briefing.
Your take please ... Also 262 pilot licenses are fake. Few pilots already admits they didn't pass the exam, someone else took the exam for them...
@Shabi1 and rest please

They should be hanged or put in jail for a life time.
If you dont create examples, you will always have miscreants.

 

[Vanguard One]

Pakistan's state-run airline is grounding 150 pilots, accusing them of obtaining licences by having others take exams for them after a probe into last month's crash that killed 97 people in Karachi.
Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, did not give additional details about the cheating but said the process to fire the pilots had been initiated.
"We will make it sure that such unqualified pilots never fly aircraft again," he told the Associated Press on Thursday. He said the safety of passengers was the airline's top priority.

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PIA acknowledges the AAIB report and have already taken measures learning from it. An independent Flight Data Monitoring setup established to monitor & analyze all flights. All pilots with dubious licenses will be grounded. Safety is more imp. than any commercial interest

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The move by PIA to ground the pilots comes a day after the country's aviation minister, Ghulam Sarqar Khan, said 262 out of 860 Pakistani pilots had "fake" licences. He made the revelation while presenting preliminary findings of a probe to parliament into the May 22 Airbus A320 aircraft crash.

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The announcement stunned lawmakers present in the National Assembly and shocked family members of passengers who died last month when Flight PK8303 after departing from the eastern city of Lahore went down in a congested residential area in Karachi, killing 97 people, including all the crew members. There were only two survivors and a girl died on the ground.

The scene of the plane crash in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP)
Neither Khan nor Hafeez released additional details about the alleged methods used by the pilots to wrongfully obtain licences to fly commercial planes. Khan said only they did not take examinations themselves to get the required certificates, which are issued by the civil aviation authority.
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But officials familiar with the process involved in issuing pilot's licences said an unspecified number of people who had the skills to fly a plane but lacked technical knowledge had in the past bribed qualified persons to take exams for them.

The move by PIA to ground the pilots comes a day after the country's aviation minister, Ghulam Sarqar Khan, said 262 out of 860 Pakistani pilots had "fake" licences. (AP)
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter, said Pakistan International Airlines learned about the scandal two years ago and had fired at least four pilots at the time on accusations of falsifying exams to obtain a license from the civil aviation authority.

– Reported with AAP

https://www.9news.com.au/national/p...cheating/910eb4da-f004-4fea-bd66-0074fbc9d837

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Anyone can fly a plane it is the small detail like

a) Opening your landing gear
b) Following protocol at landing

is why you go to school

 

[POPEYE-Sailor]

fk patwarrriiis

 

[niaz]

I have no words to describe this affair. What kind of Muslims are we? Do we think nothing risking the lives of about 200 passengers for the sake of getting the pilot's salary? I am ashamed of belonging to the nation which breeds such kind of callous & dishonest persons. "Baat to such hay magar baat hay ruswai ki"; I happen to do so.