"Previously, the House summoned the Transportation Minister and PT Lion Air management due to a similar case with a pilot. But, why should the same case recur", Muhammad Arwani Thomafi, one of the commission V members, asked here on Saturday.
Earlier reports indicated that the pilot, SS, was apprehended after he consumed methamphetamine in a hotel in Surabaya on Saturday at 03.30 am.
Police arrested SS and three other pilots while they were playing cards.
After undergoing a urine test, SS was determined to have consumed the methamphetamine, while the drug tests on the remaining three pilots proved negative, the report said.
SS was scheduled to go on duty at 06.00 that day, according to officials.
On January 10, police arrested another PT Lion Air pilot, Hanum Adhyaksa, in Makassar, South Sulawesi, with 0.9 grams of methamphetamine in his pocket.
In addition, police also caught another PT Lion Air pilot, M. Nasri, who was using methamphetamine along with two friends in an apartment in Tangerang, Banten province in 2011.
Arwani said the arrest of SS indicated that there is a management problem at PT Lion Air.
According to Arwani, the company`s management should also be held responsible for the pilot`s morale problems.
Further, the House commission, he said, would ask the Air Transportation director general of the Transportation Ministry to urge PT Lion Air to revoke the license of the pilot who used the drug. (*)
Editor: Aditia Maruli Radja
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