Posted on 01/21/2022 10:28:00 PM PST by Cronos
A Pakistan International Airlines pilot refused to fly the plane mid-journey because his shift had ended. The plane which was scheduled to land in Islamabad had made an emergency landing in Dammam due to bad weather.
Working after work hours is something that not everyone likes do to. But not everyone has the courage to refuse to work after work shift has ended.
A Pakistan pilot refused to complete a journey because his shift had ended after the plane had to make an emergency landing. A plan with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the country’s national air carrier, was scheduled to take off from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia for Islamabad on Sunday.
However, PK-9754 took off from Riyadh but had to make an emergency landing in Dammam in Saudi Arabia due to bad weather.
Later, the captain of the flight refused to fly from Dammam to Islamabad as his duty hours were over. The passengers on the flight got irritated due to the pilot's reasoning for not flying the plane to its destination. They refused to get off the plane in protest.
Eventually, authorities at the airport had to call in security to bring the situation under control. Hotel arrangements were made for the passengers at the airport.
The PIA spokesperson told The Express Tribune, "It is necessary for the pilots to take proper rest prior to flying for flight safety so arrangements were made in this regard."
The spokesperson assured that the passengers would land in Islamabad the same day by 11 pm.
The incident comes two months after the national carrier expanded its flight operations to Saudi Arabia.
just as crazy:
21 Jan: BBC: American Airlines plane turns around mid-flight over mask row
An American Airlines plane travelling from Miami to London has had to turn back because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said.
American Airlines said flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board returned to Miami where police were waiting.
They escorted a woman in her 40s off the plane, reports say...
The woman was sitting in first class, another passenger Steve Freeman told Miami’s Local 10 news...
Airlines reported nearly 6,000 incidents involving unruly passengers last year and 151 in the first two weeks of this year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Most of them involved passengers who refused to wear masks...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60080080
No, there are international standards for hours of service/hours of rest for pilots. The FAA are quite picky about this domestically. It’s why some long haul routes fly with relief pilots as part of the crew. It sounds like the press is mischaracterizing what the pilot is doing. He’s not refusing to fly, he’s refusing to violate the hours of service rules.
CC
Yikes! Yeah, I can see that getting old. How long until you reset and can fly again, after one of those?
Are you a Teamster, or are you guys outside of the union contract? Just curious.
We’ve a good friend who retired about 3 years ago from corporate. She did international procedure and such. IE type. You’re probably using stuff she wrote regularly. Certainly the packages you haul are.
Lol so did I!
(he’s refusing to violate the hours of service rules)
That’s how I thought it read, too
I have more respect for the Pakistani than the US labor unions that had to be BRIBED to load military supplies during World War 2.
The same thing would have happened in the US. When the pilots reach their duty limits they’re sent to a hotel for crew rest and another crew brought in. If another crew isn’t available the plane sits until they’re legally rested. It works similarly for truckers, when they’ve reached their limit they legally have to stop for rest.
The media whines about their lack of trust yet intentionally publishes misleading BS articles like this.
Pilot flying hours are heavily restricted, not by unions but by regulatory bodies such as the FAA. Go over the maximum and it’s usually an automatic firing. The deadliest airplane accident in history, Tenerife, was largely caused by a pilot who was busting to take off so he could reach his destination before he exceeded his permitted fly time. In his case, it would have resulted in an automatic firing.
I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
"What's our vector Victor, over."
Over Macho Grande?
Aren’t there strict laws regarding hours at the stick these days? IIRC the Ternrife disaster was a result of the pilot wanting to beat the clock on time in the cockpit.
One of the greatest comedy movies of all time...
Well, if they have rules for truckers, it seems like they ought to have even stricter rules for pilots...
“Well, if they have rules for truckers, it seems like they ought to have even stricter rules for pilots...”
They do this with trains too. When the crew is out of service hours they stop the train wherever it happens to be and shuttle a new crew out to where the train is sitting. Could be 60 miles out, doesn’t matter, that train comes to a stop.
Yeah I misread the headline to mean mid-flight instead of mid-journey.
Only after I slogged through the article did the story make sense.
We are a union shop, thank god. In our industry it’s an absolute must! They protect our jobs against the company causing a FAA violation and fines imposed directly on us.
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