A third of all pilots in Pakistan are flying with fake licences after paying people to sit their exam for them, it has been revealed. Ghulam Sargar Khan, the country's aviation minister, announced the shocking find Wednesday amid a probe into the Karachi plane crash which killed 97 people in May. Out of 860 pilots currently licenced in Pakistan, investigators identified 262 who 'did not take the exam themselves' and 'don't have flying experience', he said. Abdullah Hafeez, a spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, said the airline is now in the process of sacking the pilots. As part of the preliminary report, Khan revealed for the first time that a young girl who was on the ground when the plane crashed was killed.

Source: Daily Mail June 25, 2020 12:29 UTC