"We will make it sure that such unqualified pilots never fly aircraft again," he told The Associated Press. The move by PIA to ground the pilots comes a day after the country's aviation minister, Ghulam Sarqar Khan, said 262 out of 860 Pakistani pilots had "fake" licences. The minister added that, for its part, air traffic control did not inform the pilots about damage caused to the engines after the plane's first failed landing attempt. "The engines of the plane were damaged when they scraped the runway but the air traffic control did not inform the pilot," he said. Hafeez said notices were being issued to all those pilots who he believed had tainted licences.

Source: CBC News June 25, 2020 12:56 UTC