The government has requested the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to clarify the basis behind its letter sent to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) prior this week.
The letter from the Additional Director Operations CAA to PIA’s Safety and Quality Assurance Department expressed that the pilot of the disastrous PIA flight PK-8303 disregarded rehashed guidelines from the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) that prompted the accident.
The letter additionally requested that PIA take measures to guarantee that such a circumstance doesn’t develop later on.
On 22 May, ATC had cautioned the pilot of the plane’s uncommonly rapid and elevation before its last methodology. In any case, the pilot didn’t regard ATC’s admonitions, as per the letter.
The central government is of the view that CAA ought to have given this data to the 4-part request board researching the accident as opposed to sending it all alone to the PIA.
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In a press instructions held in Lahore, the Aviation Minister, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, stated:
We have looked for a clarification from the CAA official (for composing a letter to PIA inferring that the pilot of the PK-8303 flight didn’t adhere to the directions of ATC). For whatever length of time that the request report isn’t finished, the authority being referred to ought not have shouted out (openly). Whatever the authority/CAA needed to state ought to have been advised to the four-part request board examining the accident.
The Minister inferred that the examination report of the PK-8303 accident will be introduced in an up and coming meeting of the National Assembly.
