Nawaz Sharif also directs to reach out to affected families, facilitate them in every way to lessen burden of their grief.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has ordered independent and transparent inquiry in the PIA plane crash in which forty-eight people have been killed.
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He was addressing a high-level meeting in Islamabad on Thursday.
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The Prime Minister directed for completion of the inquiry under Safety Board as soon as possile to bring facts before the public.
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The Prime Minister also directed that a senior officer from the Air Force should be co-opted as a member of the inquiry committee.
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Nawaz Sharif directed PIA administration to reach out to the affected families and facilitate them in every way to lessen the burden of their grief.
Chairman PIA, Secretary Aviation Division, DG Civil Aviation and CEO PIA briefed the Prime Minister informing him that the flight crew and pilots operating the flight were highly experienced and professional persons with thousands of hours of flying experience behind them. The deceased captain had more than ten thousand flying hours to his credit.
The Prime Minister was informed that the unfortunate aircraft had duly undergone routine and regular maintenance and safety checks and was declared airworthy in all respects.
