Originally Posted by
kit344
Has the crew experience and recency been published yet ?
Here's a report from ARY News:
The Aircraft Accident and Investigation Team while investigating various aspects of the air crash, has demanded overall flying record of Captain Sajjad Gul from the Chief Pilot Safety of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).
The probe team has inquired about the flying routes of the pilot and also asked about the details of the log book and whether the Captain was observing fast during the flight.
The inquiry team has also asked questions about a Lahore to Karachi flight two days ago, inquiring whether the same pilot had operated a flight on the route two days ago on May 20, sources said. The issue of purported flying fatigue of the pilot also being inquired about, according to sources.
Earlier, Captain Sajjad Gul’s father in a media briefing said that his son had logged in 17,000 hours. He was the only pilot to have completed 1,000 hours in a year and a thorough professional, said the aggrieved father.
On another forum it was claimed that Captain Gul was the senior pilot at PIA. However, often with translations, transliterations, typos and second hand information these primacy claims are often misstated in my observation.
The phrase 'Gul was senior pilot at PIA' might be 'corrected' different ways for example.
The first officer was Usman Azam. I remember reading somewhere, maybe here, that he had thousands of hours but not a lot of time on the A320. Whether this was true or speculation anybody know?