Pakistan national airline fires pilots with fake school degrees
Pakistan International Airlines has fired 50 staffers including 3 pilots for holding fake high school degrees, an airline official said Monday, in the latest embarrassing mishap to hit the troubled airline. PIA, which was considered a global leader in commercial aviation until the 1970s, has been plagued by myriad controversies in recent years and saddled by billions of dollars in debt. An airline spokesman said at least 6 additional pilots had been fired recently on the same grounds. The airline has cancelled the pilots' licenses, the spokesman added. He did not specify what the other PIA staff who were sacked did for the airline. PIA was widely mocked in 2016 for sacrificing a goat next to a turboprop ATR plane to ward off bad luck, weeks after one of its planes crashed killing 47 people. <br/>
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Pakistan national airline fires pilots with fake school degrees
Pakistan International Airlines has fired 50 staffers including 3 pilots for holding fake high school degrees, an airline official said Monday, in the latest embarrassing mishap to hit the troubled airline. PIA, which was considered a global leader in commercial aviation until the 1970s, has been plagued by myriad controversies in recent years and saddled by billions of dollars in debt. An airline spokesman said at least 6 additional pilots had been fired recently on the same grounds. The airline has cancelled the pilots' licenses, the spokesman added. He did not specify what the other PIA staff who were sacked did for the airline. PIA was widely mocked in 2016 for sacrificing a goat next to a turboprop ATR plane to ward off bad luck, weeks after one of its planes crashed killing 47 people. <br/>
