PIA probing safety breach after 7 passengers forced to stand during flight

As many as 7 passengers aboard Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) Jan 20 were forced to stand throughout the over 3-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers in a serious breach of air safety regulations. PIA management appears to have taken this lightly as no action has been taken against those responsible for the situation. According to sources, PIA staffers have been trying to shift culpability onto each other and the aviation regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, has not taken punitive action against the airline or its staffers. The boarding passes issued to the extra passengers were hand-written. The computer-generated list, provided to the aircraft crew by the ground traffic staff, did not mention the excess passengers. <br/>