Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has started an investigation against a senior pilot who slept during an international flight handing over the aircraft to a trainee pilot.
According to Express Tribune, a senior PIA pilot, Captain Amir Hashmim, was found sleeping in the passenger compartment soon after London bound flight PK-785 took off from Islamabad. The pilot reportedly took a two-and-a-half-hour nap while an under-training pilot handled the aircraft.
The Pakistan’s flagship carrier at first reportedly showed reluctance in taking any step against the influential pilot, a former president of Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (PALPA), until the issue was taken up by high-ups in the Aviation Division.
The site citing its sources reported that on April 26 Hasmi, who was in-charge of operating the London-bound PK-785— carrying over 300 passengers on board, had left the cockpit in control of the under-training first officer Ali Hassan Yazdani for a nap in the business class cabin.
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