So, apart from the third class status of women and religious minorities, the violence, the lack of freedom of speech, the Islamic headcases that influence its government, poverty, ignorance, blasphemy laws and corruption, what else could make Pakistan even more of a shithole than it already is?
How about having commercial aircraft piloted by people with fake pilots licences?
Yes, Pakistan, one of the world’s premier Islamic shitholes, a nation that seem to produce and export nothing other than terrorists and rapists, has another problem, that of people buying authority to fly a plane full of paying passengers. This is a massive scandal not just for Pakistan, which can add this to all the other scandals that this nation seems to attract like a turd attracts flies, but for the aviation industry. The air passenger industry needs to have some confidence that every nation that supplies and trains pilots has put those pilots through enough training to ensure that they are safe to fly aircraft. After revelations reported by the Times of Malta about Pakistan’s fake pilot licence problem I don’t believe that the aviation industry can or should have any confidence in Pakistan’s flight training sector.
Governments are starting to take action against some Pakistan based airlines and have banned some of them from flying into their territory. Both the United Kingdom and the European Union have banned one airline, Pakistan International Airlines, which is the Pakistan flag carrier airline, from flying into their territories. For the UK and the EU to take this action suggests that the problem is even worse than it has been reported already. If this was just one or two rogue individuals with fake pilot licences then the matter might have been dealt with by words of advice, low profile help from less backwards nations or some other similar form of intervention. But a blanket ban on flights is a big stick to use.
According to the Times of Malta, one third of Pakistan International Airlines pilots were found to have either fake pilot licences or licences that claimed competences that the pilots themselves did not have. The paper quoted the EU Aviation agency as saying that the agency had ‘lost confidence’ in Pakistan International Airlines and were not sure how many of the remaining two thirds of pilots were properly trained and licensed.
Air travel is probably the safest it’s ever been, it’s certainly safer than it was in the 1950’s to 1980’s period for example, but that safety culture which has grown up following some pretty awful accidents over the years, requires pilots to be properly trained. Pakistan appears to have thrown out of the window the idea that a pilot should know what they are doing and do the right thing in a specific circumstance. Pakistan is a backward, corrupt, violent, craphole and not only is it a place I would never visit, now I don’t think I’d get on a plane to anywhere else if the pilot came from the culture that allowed pilots to fly passengers with a ‘licence’ that for all intents and purposes might have been created from an old cereal box.
