PIA's missing plane taken to Germany by ex-CEO facing corruption charges

The former CEO, a German national, was placed on exit control list as he was facing corruption charges

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), said on Wednesday that the former acting chief executive officer (CEO) of the airline, Bernd Hildenbrand, a German national, had taken PIA’s ‘missing’ plane home while leaving Pakistan. PIA confirmed that it had not sold its missing A-310 aircraft to any museum in Germany and the one present there belonged to them.
 

This issue of ‘missing’ PIA plane was raised on Tuesday when Sheikh Aftab Ahmad, Pakistan’s Minister for Parliamentary Affairs said that Hildenbrand had taken the plane without any permission. According to a report in Dawn, PIA spokesman Mashhood Tajwar said that that the missing