Pakistan's state-run airline has been banned from the European Union for six months after nearly a third of its pilots were found to hold fake or dubious licences, officials have said.
In a statement, the EASA said it had suspended PIA and a smaller private Pakistan airline "in view of the recent investigation reported on in the Pakistani Parliament which revealed that a large share of pilot licenses issued in Pakistan are invalid".A resumption of domestic operations last month was followed by a crash blamed on pilot error that killed 98 people.
More than half of them were from PIA, and the airline said it would immediately ground 141 of its 434 pilots. Aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan said reforms aimed at restructuring PIA would be completed by the end of the year.
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