More than 30% of civilian pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses and are not qualified to fly, the country’s aviation minister revealed Wednesday. Addressing Pakistan’s National Assembly, Ghulam Sarwar Khan said 262 pilots in the country “did not take the exam themselves” and had paid someone else to sit it …
Read More »Pakistan | Pilot Blamed for PK-8303 Plane Crash
Pakistani aviation authorities have told Pakistan International Airlines that the pilot of a passenger plane that crashed into a residential district of Karachi last month had ignored air traffic control’s instructions for landing, a PIA spokesman said on Wednesday. The PIA Airbus A320 crashed on May 22 while trying to …
Read More »Dozens killed as Airbus jet crashes near Pakistan airport
Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has promised an investigation after a passenger plane with 98 people on board crashed near Karachi, with dozens believed to have been killed. The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK8303 was on a routine domestic service between Lahore to Karachi and was almost at the …
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