Plane crash landing probe reveals pilot was ‘drunk’

Earlier, drunken pilot was found to be the reason of a crash landing of Shaheen Airlines aircraft, revealed a medical report.

The Boeing 737 with 121 people on board skidded off the runway soon after landing, about 1,000 feet short from the end into a grassy patch 70 feet west of the runway at Allama Iqbal worldwide Airport (AIIAP).

Meanwhile, the spokesman for Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that DG CAA Amjad Ali Toor in response to the report called an emergent meeting of the airline ” s representatives.

The private Shaheen Airlines plane, which was carrying more than 100 passengers, was landing in the eastern city of Lahore on November 3 when the incident happened.

In a statement, the Civil Aviation Authority said that it has conducted a medical investigation involving the cockpit crew following the incident.

According to the report presented in the aftermath of haphazard landing on November 9 of a Shaheen Airlines airplane, it was revealed that pilot was responsible for the risky landing.

“The allowed blood alcohol concentration level for pilots is 0.03, but the [flight NL-142] pilot’s was 0.83 at the time [of the crash]”, a CAA official said.

A Pakistani pilot was charged under the anti-terrorism act for crashlanding his aircraft in Lahore, said a daily which demanded that it is about time that lapses in security of passengers are punished with the seriousness these deserve. While there were no casualties, at least 10 passengers suffered minor injuries as luggage in the overhead bins fell on them.