No one likes to work after hours. Deadlines can wait, and usually, it is easy to stop doing a task right in the middle of it. However, not all tasks come under that category.?
Some tasks should definitely not be stopped even if it's beyond your work hours - like flying a damn plane.?
A pilot refused to complete a journey because his shift had ended after the plane had to make an emergency landing.?A plane with Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), the country’s national air carrier, was scheduled to take off from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia for Islamabad on Sunday.
However, PK-9754 took off from Riyadh but had to make an emergency landing in Dammam in Saudi Arabia due to unprecedented weather.?
After the weather settled down, the captain of the flight refused to fly from Dammam to Islamabad since his work hours were over. No points for guessing but this left the passengers on the plane quite irritated due to the reasoning given by the pilot for not flying the plane to its destination. To express their agitation, they refused to get off the plane in protest.
Eventually, authorities at the airport had to call in security to bring the situation under control. Hotel arrangements were made for the passengers at the airport.
The PIA spokesperson told?The Express Tribune, "It is necessary for the pilots to take proper rest prior to flying for flight safety so arrangements were made in this regard."
The spokesperson added that the passengers would land in Islamabad the same day by 11 pm.?The incident comes two months after the national carrier expanded its flight operations to Saudi Arabia.
Last month, a group of passengers was trapped on a British Airways flight for over five hours after their pilot tested positive for Covid-19. But it turned out to be a false positive.??
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