Aviation agency sanctions Korean airline pilots

THE Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) has penalized two pilots of a South Korean airline that operates flights from Cebu to Busan, South Korea for violating air traffic regulations.
Fined $1,000 each were two pilots of an Air Busan aircraft for violating Philippine civil aviation regulation (PCAR) on operation requirements and on air traffic control clearances.
Air Busan is a subsidiary of Asiana Airlines whose aircraft crash-landed recently in a US airport.
The CAAP, in a statement issued Tuesday, did not identify the erring pilots.
But according to the agency’s flight operations department, the offense on October 6, 2012, was “busting altitude” or the unauthorized deviation from an assigned height.
Like other air traffic regulators worldwide, the CAAP assigns altitude limits for aircraft to prevent midair collisions.
The decision finding the pilots liable for violating the PCAR was recommended by safety inspectors Rizal Ventura and Alfredo Juliano who investigated the incident. INQUIRER