Engine fire: PIA launches investigation

The engine of the aircraft is also being assessed by Civil Aviation Authority.


APP October 08, 2013

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is conducting a thorough investigation into the incident of flight PK-213 Karachi-Dubai, a PIA spokesman said on Monday. In a statement issued, the spokesperson said a team of dedicated PIA engineers is in the process of minutely checking the aircraft engine, which developed a fault during the flight on Sunday night operated by A310 aircraft. The engine of the aircraft is also being assessed by Civil Aviation Authority, he added. He said the findings will be shared with General Electric for their input as well. PIA considers the safety of its passengers, crew and aircraft as its foremost priority and therefore all aspects of the incident are being examined in sheer detail he concluded.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2013.

COMMENTS (2)

Istaburg | 11 years ago | Reply

PIA Does not even have the plane shown in the picture above please get your facts correct.... Even yesterday you reported a child being born in an aircraft which is later shown to be incorrect.... I have always maintained that the journalism on this particular website is slowly going down ..... Although it started out brilliantly

I really expected a lot higher standards of journalism when started out in collaboration with the Herald Tribune

But you have immature and incompetent people writing your blogs and the reporting sometimes nothing less than childish

Murad Malik | 11 years ago | Reply

For the love of God throw this airline in the junk where it belongs. And fire these so called dedicated employees of PIA. These free-loaders, what a shame this is. 18000 employees the biggest number in the world in terms of employee-to-plane ratio. What is this? If it would have been any other country these free-loaders good for nothing bums would have been laid off in one day. And may God curse the politicians who kept inducting more and more people every year into this blood sucking PIA. Why should we pay with our taxes the perks and pays for these free-loaders of PIA. Please get rid of them, they were not supposed to be in the airline from day one, so whats the problem of kicking them out? sell the planes, and let it be over and done with. If our govt cannot do that then fire 70 percent of PIA work force and maintain a very small fleet until revenues can be made. This is hilarious keeping such an organisation which is sucking the blood of poor tax payers. what a shame.

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