Pak pilots working in 10 nations have substantial licenses, says Aviation Division

Pak pilots working in 10 nations have substantial licenses, says Aviation Division

ISLAMABAD: The Aviation Division on Thursday said that the certifications of practically all Pakistani pilots working in remote aircrafts have been affirmed. 

Aircrafts in 10 nations had requested confirmation of legitimate flying licenses for their Pakistani pilots after it developed about 33% of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) pilots were holding "false or dubious" licenses. 

Taking all things together, the outside carriers requested evidence of 176 Pakistani pilot licenses. Of these, 166 "have been approved as authentic and ensured by the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) Pakistan as having no peculiarity", Aviation Division representative Abdul Sattar Khokhar said in an announcement

The "procedure for the staying 10 will be finished up by one week from now," he included. The 10 carriers requesting evidence of legitimate Pakistani pilots' licenses were from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Malaysia, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Hong Kong, as per the official statement. 

Aeronautics Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan had sent shockwaves through the business a month ago by uncovering that approximately 260 pilots had questionable licenses. Around 150 worked for PIA — just about 33% of the aircraft's staff of 434 pilots. 

The declaration came a month after a PIA plane collided with houses in Karachi, killing 98 individuals. Examiners have accused the accident for human mistake, however both the pilots had legitimate licenses. 

Out of the 262 pilots recognized as having 'dubious' qualifications, the licenses of 28 were dropped after endorsement by the bureau, Khokhar's announcement said. It added that the procedure to confirm the licenses of 76 pilots had been begun while the preparing of the rest of the cases will be started "in the blink of an eye". 

"The whole procedure of examination and approval followed by essential disciplinary activity is by and large firmly checked and by and by managed by" Aviation Minister Khan, the present accentuated. 

The announcement comes a day after it rose that, in what seemed, by all accounts, to be an immediate inconsistency to the aeronautics clergyman's charge that just about 40 percent of Pakistani pilots had 'counterfeit licenses', the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had named all business/aircraft transport pilots licenses (CPL/ATPL) it gave as "veritable and legitimately gave"

"Clarify that all CPL/ATPL pilot licenses gave by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority are real and truly gave. None of the pilot licenses are phony, rather the issue has been confused and inaccurately featured in the media/internet based life," composed CAA Director General Hassan Nasir Jamy in a letter dated July 13 to a high-positioning aeronautics authority of Oman. Jamy is additionally the secretary of the Aviation Division.