The pilots of a Pakistani plane that came down in a residential area, killing 97 of the 99 people on board, were chatting about coronavirus, not paying attention to the landing, the country’s aviation minister said
ISLAMABAD—The pilots of a Pakistan International Airlines plane that crashed in Karachi last month were chatting about coronavirus and not paying attention to the landing, the country’s aviation minister said Wednesday.
During the same speech in parliament, the minister said that a separate investigation had revealed that hundreds of Pakistani pilots, working for domestic airlines as well as some airlines overseas, obtained their pilot licenses by cheating and were fraudulently credentialed.
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