The issues of licenses surfaced in the wake of the tragic crash of a PIA plane in Karachi on May 22, killing about 95 people, when Minister of Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan told media that 260 of the country's 860 active pilots had either fake licenses or had cheated in their exams.
According to sources, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) CEO had approved the changes in meal service which had come into force from Monday onwards.
Pakistan International Airlines, hit by revelations of fake licences of some of its pilots, will partially resume its flights to the UK from August 14 using a hired Portuguese plane, according to a media report on Thursday.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) last month sacked 63 of its employees, including 5 pilots, on charges of fake degrees, embezzlement and absence from duty.
The services of as many as 25 employees were terminated on charges of fake/bogus/tampered degrees and documents, 21 employees were dismissed on charges of prolonged unauthorised absence, while service of one employee was terminated for showing disobedience and breach of rules and SOPs.
The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended the authorisation for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate in Europe for six months.
A two-member Pakistani team investigating the PIA plane crash near the Karachi airport on May 22 has returned to the country with the evidence extracted from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the aircraft after they were decoded by French experts, it was reported on Monday.
The French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) on Friday said in a tweet that downloading and decoding of the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder, the two components of the PK-8303 black box, "has ended. The analysis will continue", media reports said.
A total of 97 people including the aircraft crew died in the crash, one of the most catastrophic aviation disasters in Pakistan's history. A government official said on Thursday that the identification of 47 bodies had been completed, while 43 bodies were handed over for burial.
Airbus experts continued to examine and collect evidence about the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crash on May 22 at a residential area in the port city that killed 97 people, it was reported on Thursday.
The pilot of the crashed Pakistan International Airlines plane ignored three warnings from the air traffic controllers about the aircraft's altitude and speed before the landing, according to media reports on Monday.
According to an earlier report, prepared by Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA), the plane's engines had scraped the runway thrice on the pilot's first attempt to land the plane. It caused friction and sparks. Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdul Sattar Kokhar said the Airbus A320 was carrying 91 passengers and eight crew members. The only other survivor of the crash was Zafar Masood, a bank executive.
The Pakistan International Airlines plane, carrying 99 travellers on board plunged into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir on Friday afternoon, minutes before its landing in Karachi. Eleven people on the ground were injured.
The flight was coming from Lahore to Karachi after the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) allowed limited resumption of domestic flights last Saturday following weeks of lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Television channels showed several houses and cars damaged in the society where the aircraft crashed.
For the first time in its aviation history, Pakistan's cash-strapped national carrier - Pakistan International Airlines - has been given permission by the US authorities to enter America directly, PTI reported quoting PIA spokesperson.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been allowed by the US Department of Transportation to conduct direct flights to America with immediate effect, the flag carrier announced.
Pakistan's flag carrier PIA has asked some of its cabin crew with "excess weight" to shed some kilos within six months or risk being grounded, in a bid to make them "slim, smart and fit", a media report said.
A brawl took place between the two after the pilot claimed the steward remained involved in incidents of smuggling during flight duty on previous occasions.
Taking a tough stand against unruly passengers, the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Thursday blacklisted an unspecified number of passengers who violated no-smoking rule and misbehaving with the crew.
Karachi: Pakistan International Airlines Chairman Nasser NS Jaffer set a new precedent on Monday, becoming the first head of the often-criticised national carrier to board a flight as last passenger who got the worst seat
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