PIA engineers fix grounded plane in Norway’s freezing temperature

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) engineers and other ground handling personnel braved dangerous cold to repair an aircraft for about four hours that had encountered a technical glitch in the engine.

The engine of the PIA aircraft (Boeing 777), which was to depart for Lahore from Oslo, developed a fault. As luck would have it, local engineers, who usually handle and carry out repair and maintenance work of aircraft, refused to make the plane airworthy owing to the harsh weather.

A team of engineers flew to Oslo from Pakistan and after three to four hours of hard work under the extreme weather conditions remained successful in fixing the plane.

More than 200 passengers on board were provided hotel accommodation by the airline.

Lauding the engineers, PIA CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik announced to award them certificates of appreciation. He said the engineers put their lives at risk to make the aircraft airworthy to bring the Pakistanis back home.

The positive news for PIA comes as a relief because the airline had been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in the recent past.

Earlier on February 4, a PIA flight passenger travelling to London was in for a rude awakening as he noticed that the kheer served to him had a live worm in it.

The passenger shared a video of the incident, which soon began doing the rounds on social media. After that the airline’s deputy general manager of flight services summoned the cabin crew of the flight from Lahore to London.

It had reported that they were grilled and given a dressing down by the PIA administration; the cabin crew was asked how the passenger managed to make and upload the video of the ‘special serving’.