Stunning Revelations made in the inquiry report of the PIA Airbus A320 crash in Karachi
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Executive Director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), Patrick Ky, has said that pilots’ rustiness after the suspension of air travel around the world during the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic might inadvertently have contributed to the plane crash involving PIA’s Airbus A320 that occurred in May earlier this year.
On May 22, a Karachi-bound PIA flight PK-8303 had crashed in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport Karachi, killing 97 out of 99 people on board. ------------------------------
While addressing a virtual media briefing organized by the Airlines for Europe (A4U), Europe’s top aviation-safety official said:
The PK-8303 pilots did not seem to be as fluent in the way they were conducting their flights as they should have. If you haven’t flown for three months, six months, you need to be retrained in some way in order to come back.
Ky also questioned the maintenance of PIA’s aircraft after sitting idle during the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic.
From a safety perspective, we were concerned with the PIA’s return to operations. An Aircraft is not like a washing machine. You need to perform a certain number of tasks in order to ensure it is safe.
