KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on Friday held a board meeting to discuss the case of the Airbus 310 a
ircraft which was sold to a museum in Germany for only Rs 5 million. Independent estimates suggested that even a wrecked a
ircraft of this model would cost over Rs 8 million.
During the meeting, it was decided that discrepancies in the sale of a
ircraft would be investigated.
The part
icipants of the meeting were briefed about how the a
ircraft had been handed over t
o the German museum without having received any payment. Part
icipants were of the
view that the a
ircraft which should have sold for millions was instead sold for peanuts.
This issue has also been raised in the Senate before the PIA board meeting.
A board member on condition of anonymity told media that one such a
ircraft was given to an Israeli firm for a film shooting without any permission from the government. The member added that the film crew had not even paid PIA for use of the a
ircraft.
The source informed that the a
ircraft was used in the Israeli film and then sold to a German museum on the orders of its German CEO Bernd Hildenbrand.
PIA officials on condition of anonymity claimed that this board meeting was just a move to ward o
ff pressure at the moment.
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