The flight paths of trainee pilots are the responsibility of the federal government and only it can stop them from flying over residential areas, the Home Department told the Lahore High Court on Thursday.
The court of Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik was hearing a petition calling for a ban on trainee flights over residential areas, particularly after a trainee pilot and his instructor were killed when their plane crashed into a Model Town house on February 23.
Counsel for the Home Department said the provincial government could not restrict trainee pilots.
A deputy attorney general (DAG) sought time to consult with the federal government. The court directed him to file a reply by April 20.
Advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhry, the petitioner, submitted that training flights were not supposed to be conducted over residential areas. He said that Lahore had expanded in recent years and many previously uninhabited regions were now heavily congested. He asked that the government be directed to stop trainee flights over residential areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 16th, 2012.
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