Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan at a press conference today informed:
Fake Educational Documents
Supreme Court had taken suo moto notice airline employees with fake educational documents.
A total of 648 PIA employees were found with fake educational documents including:
- 415 general administration employees
- 119 flight attendants
- 98 from engineering department including technicians
- 16 pilots
280 airline employees with fake educational documents have been sacked in 2018-19.
Dubious Pilot Licence
Pilots with suspicious licences appeared in CAA exams and got recruited between 2010 and 2018.
There are 860 Pakistani licenced pilots including:
- 753 pilots serving Pakistani airlines/companies
- 107 serving foreign airlines/companies
753 pilots serving in Pakistan
- 450 pilots serving PIA
- 101 serving various companies in Pakistan (charter flight operators/flying clubs etc.)
- 87 pilots serving airblue
- 68 pilots of defunct Shaheen Air
- 47 pilots serving Serene Air
Total: 753 pilots serving in Pakistan
Out of these 753 pilots,
262 pilots have suspect/dubious licences and serving:
- 141 pilots with suspect/dubious licence serving PIA
- 85 pilots with suspect/dubious licence serving serving various companies in Pakistan (charter flight operators/flying clubs etc.)
- 17 pilots with suspect/dubious licence served Shaheen Air
- 10 pilots with suspect/dubious licence serving Serene Air
- 9 pilots with suspect/dubious licence serving airblue
Total: 262 pilots with suspect/dubious licences
262 pilots with suspect/dubious licences have bogus/forged CAA exam paper result:
- 121 pilots with 1 bogus/forged CAA exam paper result
- 39 pilots with 2 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 21 pilots with 3 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 15 pilots with 4 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 11 pilots with 5 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 11 pilots with 6 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 10 pilots with 7 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
- 34 pilots with 8 bogus/forged CAA exam paper results
Total 262 pilots with bogus exam paper results
Pilots have to appear in a total 8 exams
Out of these 262 pilots with bogus exam paper results:
- 109 hold commercial pilot licence (CPL)
- 153 hold airline transport pilot license (ATPL)
List of these pilots has been sent to their employers including PIA, Serene Air and airblue. These pilots will be grounded and stopped from flying.
Five employees of Pakistan CAA involved in issuance of dubious licences to pilots have been suspended. The five suspended CAA employees include:
2 x Senior Joint Director Licencing
1 x Senior Superintendent Human Resources
2 x Assistant Grade-II Admin
CAA IT department and three to four outsiders also involved in dubious pilot licence scandal.
Government considering to involve FIA in the investigation.
Inquiry against 28 pilots with dubious licence completed. Show cause notice and charge sheet were issued to them. Personal hearing of these cases also took place. Nine out of these twenty-eight pilots confessed obtaining licence in dubious manner.
Licences of these 28 pilots will be cancelled in a cabinet meeting.
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