Cathay Pacific must review Hong Kong cadet pilot hiring, training after US crashes: experts
- Tycoon Allan Zeman among air industry figures calling for new look at cadet pilot selection and training after three incidents at US training school
Entertainment tycoon Allan Zeman, a former Airport Authority member, told the Post that the airline should work with its US partner AeroGuard Flight Training Centre to revise recruitment and teaching methods for cadets because of the “alarming” rise in serious incidents reported by the Arizona-based flying school.
“It’s not comforting to see three different incidents happen in a matter of a couple of weeks,” Zeman said. “So obviously, there’s something wrong.
“They’ve got to examine the cadet hiring, the training programme and the whole procedures, just to make sure that this cannot happen.
“They have to examine the criteria to make sure that they’re hiring the right kind of candidates to go to the training school, because this shouldn’t happen.”