Pakistan News And Discussion-10

[Naresh]

[center]<b><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Flight safety</span></b>[/center]

<b>Sir : More PAF aircrafts have been lost during peacetime than in active war duty. These losses include all varieties of aircraft, ranging from F16, Mirages, F6 etc etc. Does this not point to serious lapses in the airforce maintenance and engineering division, or is it pilot training which is the cause?</b> While PAF hosts Aviation Safety week, it needs to do some honest self-assessment regarding its deteriorating standards, as compared to what they were during times of Nur Khan or Asghar Khan. This poor nation cannot afford such mounting losses, which are brushed aside as a routine matter.

<b>The recent PIA Fokker crash came under a lot of scrutiny, ironically by retired PAF officers; <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>what about the over 14 PAF aircrafts that have crashed during last year? <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo--> It is time PAF puts its own house in order.</span>

IRFAN BUTT
Singapore</b>

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