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PALPA says PIA violating safety rules
PALPA spokesman said that just before the crash PALPA had pointed out the violation of air safety regulations by PIA.
Pakistan Air Line Pilots’ Association (PALPA) spokesman said that just before the crash, PALPA had pointed out the violation of air safety regulations by the Flight Operations Directorate of PIA.
Pakistan Air Line Pilots’ Association (PALPA) spokesman said that just before the crash, PALPA had pointed out the violation of air safety regulations by the Flight Operations Directorate of PIA as the management was compelling pilots to fly longer than internationally laid down rules thus putting passengers’ safety at peril.
The Civil Aviation Authority must take notice of these violations before it is too late.
He said that continuous violations of air safety rules will not only affect the sanctity of the aviation industry in Pakistan but will ruin the safety record of the national flag carrier as well.
“The horrific plane crash signifies the importance of flight safety laws and passengers safety measures, he said.
PALPA since its inception has been stressing on international flight safety standards.
“PALPA recently organised an international safety seminar providing a platform to the aviation professionals to discover new ideas for improving air safety and raised public awareness for their contribution to the cause besides identifying existing critical issues in the aviation industry which affect aviation safety,” the spokesman added.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 29th, 2010.
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Shouldn’t violate the principle
set by the authority concerned
there must be supervisory depart
consisting on experts which keep supervision
stand on 24 hours
in regard to safety and maintenance.Recommend
Safety is one of the important part of flight operation. It is not only the duty of a pilot to maintain safety but also the people in
flight dispatch and operations play an important role.
The CAA of pakistan should take strict action and check all the airlines in regards to their records which includes pilots, engineer, and dispatch. So that in the future this kind of incident wont happen. Airlines should make sure they hired qualified and medically fit people for the flying positions they are looking for, since it is a question of many lives sitting in the plane.
God bless the familes of people who died in that accident and for them May Allah give them a place in Jannah (Ameen)Recommend
It has been reported in the press that the First Officer Muntajib Chughtai of the ill-fated Airblue flight was a F-16 fighter pilot and new to commercial aviation.
Now the question arises why PIA relies on heavy recruitment of ex-PAF pilots ? PIA should train pilots on it own SOP and groom them from the grass-roots.
Flying a jet fighter may be more demanding but civil aviation is a different ball game. Or are the two same ?
For PIA it is one and the same operation. PIA pilot hiring policy sees it with one eye and has merged the two different flying categories.
Theoritically, this policy justifies the transfer of pilots to PAF, a step PAF will never entertain and agree to.
Then, why the one way ticket from PAF to PIA ? I am afraid this is a fishy policy !Recommend
PALPA is being PALPA; living up to its reputation of harming the PIA…at least some in the CAA are of the opinion. Yes the PIA does violate safety sometimes no questions about it but here they are playing politics with a crash. Had PALPA been seriously concerned about flight safety, Pilot fatigue alone wouldn’t have been referred to when it came to the issue of flying safe. In 2006 a PIA F-27 Fokker crashed just outside the Multan airport on take off roll. You wouldn’t have heard PIA tell you about sluggish Flight Deck (Pilots) response to a simple engine failure problem that day, nor would you have heard PALPA take the PIA Engineering to task who knew the plane had a history with the failed engine and yet cleared that aircraft to take flight that hot day..at least for a while. Who cares…its Pakistani lives isn’t it.Recommend
Firstly, id like to suggest that you get your facts straight. the co-pilots name was not muntajib chughtai as indicated above. His name was Syed Muntajibuddin Ahmed.Its disturbing that even today, nearly two weeks after the crash, news channels as well as newspapers are printing the wrong name. Secondly, the fact that you are suggesting pilot error and promptly placing the blame on the co pilot is both unfair and horrifying. unfair because there is no proof, and horrifying because one person is being blamed for the death of 152 passengers when i know for a fact that the pilot was experienced as well as excellent at his chosen vocation. Also, like most channels etc. are indicating, it was not his second flight, he had been flying for airblue for more then a year and had years worth of flying experience in the airforce before. He was an ace mirage and f-16 pilot as well as a retired squadron leader. I suggest you stop making accusations and in the future get your facts straight before writing such preposturous articles and introducing such ideas to an already gullible public.Recommend