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200 unqualified airline pilots detected in China
Sep 7, 2010, 8:34 GMT
Beijing - Around 200 pilots in China have been found to have faked their experience to get hired, media reports said Tuesday.
Pilots reportedly exaggerated the number of hours they had flown and falsified their credentials.
The news came in the wake of an accident involving a Henan Airlines flight on August 24 in Yichun in north-east China. Forty-two people died when the plane crashed while attempting to land.
The authorities are now checking the qualifications of all pilots, maintenance crews and other personnel.
The revelation was based on investigations between 2008-09 which have only just been made public.
Half of the pilots with faked experience work for Shenzhen Airlines, the parent company of Henan Airlines, the operator of the plane that crashed, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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