PIA planes were operated by Middle pass pilots

[HAIDER]

on 3rd January 2019
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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the flag carrier of Pakistan, has terminated the contracts of at least 50 employees, including pilots and cabin crew, for holding false degrees. The case, which is being investigated by the country’s aviation authority, has reached Pakistan’s top court, revealing some of the airline’s pilots have not even completed high school.

An initial statement by PIA said the airline has fired three pilots and 50 cabin staff after they were found to be holding false degrees, media reports revealed on December 29, 2018.

“The airline has dismissed from service its 50 staffers including three pilots for holding fake high school degrees,” PIA’s spokesperson Mashood Tajwar was quoted as saying by A21.com.mx citing AFP news agency.

According to a subsequent, December 31, 2018, report by the Arab News, Tajwar had identified at least six more pilots that had been fired as a result of the allegations.

The action by the national carrier was taken in light of the proceedings of Pakistan's Supreme Court against pilots and cabin crew members with bogus degrees and certificates.

"We have begun probe into (the cases of) all staffers who were hired (while) holding sham degrees," Tajwar was quoted as saying by India’s Economic Times citing the Express Tribune.

Meanwhile, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has suspended the licenses of pilots and cabin crew discovered to be holding fake academic credentials. The CAA has also issued directives to suspend the licenses of all those who have not yet submitted their degrees and certificates for verification, Pakistan‘s Express Tribune writes.

To fire or not to fire
According to a report by News18.com on December 30, 2018, the cases of 4,321 employees of PIA had been verified by the CAA. But the agency also revealed before the Supreme Court it had found the academic credentials of seven PIA’s pilots to be fake. Five of them have not even completed their matriculation (basically, 10th grade

 

[HAIDER]

It is 2019 Jan news, so it means something was cooking way before Karachi crash. And every govt and its CAA ministers were ignoring the issue for the sake of political gains.
But most interesting is 8 jamat pass pilots ...lol

 

[HushShah]

Anything and everything is possible in our beloved Pakistan now I know why they were sacrificing goats before flights,

on a serious note it's a good opportunity for PIA/Government to implement major changes to improve the airliner

 

[HAIDER]

Anything and everything is possible in our beloved Pakistan now I know why they were sacrificing goats before flights,

on a serious note it's a good opportunity for PIA/Government to implement major changes to improve the airliner

The whole story of PIA....