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Private airlines can only fly after technical clearance: Mukhtar

Dawn.com Published April 22, 2012
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The minister of defence said that all private airlines will have to go through the same clearance procedures that PIA aircraft's do. -File Photo

ISLAMABAD: The Minister of Defence, Ahmed Mukhtar has ordered all private airline planes to be grounded, saying that they can only fly after technical inspection. It has also been decided to ground all faulty and out of order planes.

Private airline planes will undergo rigorous inspections from tomorrow after the Minister of Defence ordered Director General of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to inspect the fleet of private airliners.

Mukhtar said it will take a couple of days to check all the planes, which will go through the same fitness procedures of PIA. He further said a probe of the Bhoja Air incident will be finalised within three to four weeks.

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Khurram
Apr 23, 2012 10:51am
Technical inspection is mandatroy as per aviation law, Who is responsible for this accident... Our honorable minister, CAA or the whole system and their runners...
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Mohammad Yamin
Jun 19, 2012 11:12pm
PIA also needs a critical look. Delays in international flights is the order of the day, at times making the passenger miss their connecting flights from Dubai. I had such an experience on 8th May on PIA's Karachi/ Dubai Flight. I could not take Swiss International Flight from Dubai. The PIA flight arrived 5 and a half hour late in Karachi. By that time my onward flight had departed from Zurich. I had to buy two seats on Emirates on 12th May. This was a real hardship for me as a Senior Citizen.
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