PIA Flight PK791 Cabin Crew Baggage Searched by British Authorities in Birmingham

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PIA Flight PK791 Cabin Crew Baggage Searched by British Authorities in Birmingham

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According to news sources, flight attendants of PIA flight PK791 from Islamabad upon arrival in Birmingham were stopped by British authorities in boarding bridge where sniffer dogs searched cabin crew's hand bags. After completion of search, the crew was allowed to enter airport lounge.

Later, after the cabin crew collected their baggage pieces, British customs officials searched crew's baggage thoroughly. The flight's thirteen flight attendants were cleared and allowed to leave the airport after an hour.

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On December 12, PIA Boeing 777-300ER registration AP-BHW arrived in Birmingham at 2:56 PM as flight PK791 from Islamabad.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/pk791
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ap-bhw

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PIA should involve foreign ministry and should ask UK authorities why this is happen to PIA crew?
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I don't think crews are exempt from custom inspections. There are stories every now and again when Pakistani customs also checked the bags and recovered mobile phones etc. The custom officials were just doing their jobs.
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ammad wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:31 pm PIA should involve foreign ministry and should ask UK authorities why this is happen to PIA crew?
Childish.

PIA don't have that moral courage to do it, because the crew actually do such things so that custom officials check them again and again.
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Jamshed wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:09 pm
ammad wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:31 pm PIA should involve foreign ministry and should ask UK authorities why this is happen to PIA crew?
Childish.

PIA don't have that moral courage to do it, because the crew actually do such things so that custom officials check them again and again.
Couldnt agree more here, unfortunately PK crew have one of the worst reps amongst the world here in regards to smuggling.
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Cockpit crew, pilot, Captain, Cabin crew, Pursers, Inflight Manager always KNOW "DUTY" their job working NOT holiday or off-duty or NOT passengers they MUST follow "DUTY" policy rules but they always IGNORE Duty's information because they get trouble by customs. IF passengers or off-duty or holiday or leisure or pleasure or vacation can carry things to anywhere in world WITHOUT Duty or job. but NOT NOT NOT Duty uniform job or NOT NOT NOT duty ticket. Duty MUST NOT use commercial. Duty MUST carry uniform job clothes & comestic & rest clothes maximum 23kg ONE medium or small suitcase and ONE briefcase and ONE purser handbag uniform job duty.
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Jamshed wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 4:09 pm
ammad wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:31 pm PIA should involve foreign ministry and should ask UK authorities why this is happen to PIA crew?
Childish.

PIA don't have that moral courage to do it, because the crew actually do such things so that custom officials check them again and again.
Pretty puerile statement.

That's what i am saying PIA should have to show moral courage to stand against this. I hate it when people start accepting humiliation as norm. -- This is not normal.

I can 100% understand that PIA crew had rough past and still couple of bad people in form of flight crew (generally cabin) are still with PIA.

But treating like this for the full set of crew should not be acceptable, and at the same time UK authorities should do due diligence but should not treat them like this.

And at the same time PIA needs to ramp up it's own checks before flight departure so that the occurrences of any smuggling related event should be less.
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When crossing borders, one is subject to identity checks and customs inspections. That applies to airline crews as well. Obviously, customs - for lack of time and manpower - can't check everyone all the time, so most if the time they too can pass without delay; but customs do have that right.

So stop pretending that being subjected to a routine check (once!) is somehow a "humiliation", throwing a tantrum about that is a sign of "morale courage", or call on assorted ministries and government officials to make a fool of themselves with futile claims of victimhood just because those being checked are pakistanis. Especially when considering pakistan and pia are, by all means, very high risk when it comes to smuggling and (aviation) safety issues.
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If you read it one more time:

You can notice that crew were stopped at ** THE boarding bridge.*** -- That's where i notice the issue is. This is usually happen for some one to whom authorities really want to arrest just after arrival. This is not custom checking. Custom checks are happen at the designated areas usually after clearing immigration.


I never wrote that crew have immunity that they can't be searched. They are subject to be searched. even all of the crew could be searched but again at the designated custom control area, not at the arrival/boarding bridge of incoming flight.
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Checking at the gate is fairly common on high risk flights. In fact, in some european airports both passengers and crew flying in from certain airports get checked upon deplaning. All of them, 100% of the time. Works great as a deterrent against narcotics smuggling.

The authorities may well have received tips/intel about that one flight. PIA flights have been found to carry wholesale loads of heroin before, so customs wouldn't hesitate to act if that were the case.
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ammad wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:31 pm PIA should involve foreign ministry and should ask UK authorities why this is happen to PIA crew?
It can happen to anyone. I once arrived in Copenhagen by Turkish airline (Pegasus air) flight and we arrived at a remote gate. While we were disembarking, pilot /co pilot had to step out of aircraft and were pat-down searched by the authorities in front of everyone , even though this flight crew does not make stopover in Copenhagen. They stay onboard and return back to Istanbul with the same flight.
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Well Deserved Check. Infact each and every Crew member should be checked Thrice at Home station before they get on board. The "Good" name PIA crew has brought to the Airline is the reason.
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