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Blanket statements are certainly inappropriate, but as it happens, some months later it came to the public, that over half of the pilots in Pakistan had not pas
by _ph_ 6y ago
Blanket statements are certainly inappropriate, but as it happens, some months later it came to the public, that over half of the pilots in Pakistan had not passed the proper tests for their license. The Airbus crash in Karachi was entirely due to incompetent flying, like way to high approach speed and not checking whether the wheels were down.
- selimthegrim 6y agoWhile the approach controllers share some blame too, it turns out that Pakistan CAA had recently changed the test scheme and a lot of pilots fully qualified under the old regime hadn’t taken the new set of exams which used to be optional