Independent ride reserve and investigation
LAHORE: The arise in magnitude of blurb aircraft, highway and rail accidents with fatalities using into a thousands should have lifted alarm bells. This standing quo can't proceed, where after any accident, stereotypical domestic statements are issued, earnest to move those obliged for any probable rapist loosening to justice. Although PIA is distant improved than other private airlines regulated by a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), it has witnessed continual decline, that needs to be checked.
The primary shortcoming of any regulator is to safeguard that all airlines and licence companies accommodate customary smallest reserve mandate and follow upkeep procedures. The organisation that operates them should be professionally efficient and medically and mentally fit, that can differently adversely deteriorate their reflexes and doing of aircraft in aberrant and puncture situations. The prejudiced anathema imposed by a European Aviation Safety Agency in 2007 on PIA was subsequently cold in Nov 2007. It was an complaint on a CAA since PIA, being a solitary airline underneath a regulatory control, was handling into Europe. It was again blacklisted in Nov 2011 since it was rendered exposed for prioritised ramp inspection. All is not good with a operative and regulatory control of Pakistan’s blurb aviation attention and this standing quo should not be tolerated.
It is impending to note that a United States Air Force is among a best, well-trained and technologically advanced, most like a Pakistan Air Force (PAF). There exists a apart reserve house comprising of experts in troops aviation to examine all incidents or accidents involving fight aircraft of several uniformed units, that are underneath executive control of a Pentagon. All incidents and accidents involving commercial, private and franchised aircraft purebred in a US are investigated by a National Transport Safety Board, that also investigates other forms of ride accidents and incidents. The regulatory physique for blurb aviation is a Federal Aviation Administration while particular airports are owned and operated by apart entities and are totally eccentric of any other. With all due honour to a PAF and other units of uniformed confidence services, a disproportion between blurb aviation, their training and imagination is as sundry in a blurb ride aviation attention as a disproportion between a dentist and an oncologist.
Malik Tariq Ali
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 14th, 2016.
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