Pakistan’s Minister for Civil Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Wednesday presented the preliminary report on the Pakistan Worldwide Airlines (PIA) aircraft crash ahead of the National Assembly, wherever he accused the pilots of currently being ‘overconfident.

The domestic flight from Lahore to Karachi crashed in a household location close to the Jinnah Global Airport in Karachi on Could 22.

The Airbus A320 aircraft had 91 passengers and a crew of 8 when it crashed in the Jinnah Back garden spot near Design Colony in Malir, minutes just before landing. Just one woman on the ground also died right after suffering burn injuries.

Two travellers miraculously survived the crash.

A probe was requested by the federal government with the dedication that the initial report would be shared with Parliament on June 22.

Based mostly on the initial report, Khan held the pilot, the cabin crew, and the Air Traffic Management (ATC) liable for the aircraft crash which resulted in the fatalities of 97 out of 99 individuals on board the flight, the Specific Tribune claimed.

“The pilot and the ATC did not follow the procedure. The airplane was 100 per cent ok,” mentioned the minister, eliminating the probability of technological faults in the plane.

Khan included that the pilots were not “centered” for the reason that of the coronavirus pandemic.

“In the previous half hour, the pilots’ dialogue was about coronavirus, they had been not targeted as their households were influenced,” stated the Minister, incorporating that the pilot and co-pilot ended up each in good shape and experienced.

‘The ultimate report on the crash will be offered in a person year’

In the previous 72 a long time, there have been 12 this kind of incidents, said Khan. No investigation report was issued, no 1 realized who was dependable, admitted the minister in the Countrywide Assembly.

He also certain the Household that the federal government would not privatise Pakistan Intercontinental Airways. Instead, it will be “restructured” and the govt would consider it again to its glory days. Having said that, the minister advised the Reduce Household, that out of the total 860 pilots in Pakistan, 262 pilots did not sit for the examinations. Somebody else sat in the examinations for them, he claimed. Primarily based on this, Khan mentioned, 40 per cent licenses are “pretend”, and the pilots will not have the necessary traveling practical experience.

According to the aviation minister, people today have been inducted based on faux levels, or appointed on a political basis, with merit getting overlooked. He elaborated that an inquiry has been initiated in this regard, and exhibit-induce notices have been issued to 54 pilots. “Some of the pilots have also challenged these notices in court docket. Therefore considerably, nine pilots have confessed to holding phony degrees,” he claimed.