Executive Director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA),Patrick Ky, has said that pilots’ rustiness after the suspension of airtravel around the world during the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic mightinadvertently have contributed to the plane crash involving PIA’s AirbusA320 that occurred in May earlier this year.
On May 22, a Karachi-bound PIA flight PK-8303 had crashed in Model Colonynear Jinnah International Airport Karachi, killing 97 out of 99 people onboard.——————————
While addressing a virtual media briefing organized by the Airlines forEurope (A4U), Europe’s top aviation-safety official said:
The PK-8303 pilots did not seem to be as fluent in the way they wereconducting their flights as they should have. If you haven’t flown forthree months, six months, you need to be retrained in some way in order tocome back.
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Ky also questioned the maintenance of PIA’s aircraft after sitting idleduring the peak of the Coronavirus pandemic.
From a safety perspective, we were concerned with the PIA’s return tooperations. An Aircraft is not like a washing machine. You need to performa certain number of tasks in order to ensure it is safe.
