To fly a certain aircraft, all pilots have to obtain a type rating for that aircraft. However, a copy of the results of his tests taken in October 2020 showed that out of 14 exams required for the ATPL licence, Mehedi did not sit for 11, and failed two of the three he sat for.Ī Biman document dated February 12, 2023, confirmed that it had ended Mehedi's tenure with the carrier late last year. Sultana refused to comment on the issue but said the matter was being handled by higher authorities. The licence had a forged signature of Shirin Sultana, former assistant director of flight safety at CAAB. Sadia is not the only pilot in this batch of recruits to have forged a document.įirst officer Al Mehedi Islam had his contract terminated for having forged his Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL), which is required to be a pilot in command. Sadia is the wife of Biman Chief of Training Captain Sazid Ahmed. The CAAB rulebook mandates that all commercial pilots must have an educational qualification of HSC (Science) or equivalent with mandatory physics and mathematics. A recent investigation revealed that she submitted a forged educational certificate, claiming that she was a student of the science group during her higher secondary school exams.ĭata retrieved from the Dhaka Board of Education, however, shows that she was a student of humanities, passing in second division from Shaheed Anwar Girls' College in Bangla, English, civics, psychology, and home economics. Take First Officer Sadia Ahmed as an example. According to a document of Biman dated February 13 this year, out of the 14 recruited, only four captains and a first officer passed all the tests to fly the plane.īiman, however, has been flouting rule after rule and going to great lengths to protect the pilots who failed.
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