Originally Posted by
Superpilot
Pakistan media now getting into a frenzy about fake licenses with one minister claiming up to 40% of the pilots have fake qualifications.
Doing a great job to get the airline banned from landing anywhere in the Western hemisphere.
When you talk about ‘fake’, I think what is meant is that they didn’t achieve a standard of higher education (fake degree certificates) before embarking upon flying training be it civil or (ex) military.
I assume their civil written exams are equivalent to the FAA/EASA hoop jumping exercises. So the licences are genuine licences issued by their CAA although the qualifying requirements were not met.
Perhaps someone can confirm the actual process?
edit: Now updated news that the exams were written by ‘others’ as well. So licences revoked.
PIA were banned from EU airspace in March 2007 on safety grounds due to an old aircraft fleet, apart from their B.777s. A partial lifting occurred four months later, and the ban was eventually lifted in the November following a final EU safety audit.