Sources of media exclaim including GEO News who reported that PIA Flight 747 fly without engineer. The flight was meant to be destined in Medina.
The government and PIA employee have been under tension over privatization. Recently few PIA employees were also shot in protest and the alleged responsibilities claimed by them was authorities.
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— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) February 8, 2016
However authorities claim the the fire was not shot by them, since then the issue is not yet properly resolved. PIA is facing 100 million rupees loss, this was stated by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif even after the incident of bloodbath happened in protest launched by PIA employees. There is a serious debate still going whether should PIA be privatized or not.
However this incident of absent technical engineer can be a result of the privatization resistance context shared above.