Sunday, May 7, 2017

Trainee Pilot Flew Pakistani Jet With 300 on Board As Captain Slept in 1st Class – Media

Trainee Pilot Flew Pakistani Jet With 300 on Board As Captain Slept in 1st Class – Media

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada -  May 7, 2017: A London-bound Pakistan International Airlines flight with over 300 people on board was left in the hands of a trainee pilot for more than two hours while his captain was in the first-class cabin grabbing some shuteye, local media revealed.

Amir Akhtar Hashmi, a senior pilot for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), was supposed to train his first officer, Ali Hassan Yazdani, during the flight. The young trainee was joined in the cockpit by another first officer, Mohammad Asad Ali.

Shortly after flight PK-785 departed from Islamabad, Hashmi, a former president of Pakistan Airlines Pilots Association (PALPA), handed over the controls to Yazdani and left the cockpit for the first-class cabin, Dawn newspaper reported .... Read more;

https://www.rt.com/news/387446-pakistan-pilot-sleep-flight/
*Photograph: IPF (International Pool of Friends) - Boeing
*PK-785PK-785Presented & compiled for DTN News ~ Defense-Technology News

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