As many as 79 Vietnamese pilot trainees have been abandoned in the U.S. since last October after the training center Ahart in California, US, where they were attending, were closed down and the owner of the center fled away.
Only 6 of the 79 trainees graduated from the course and were granted certificates as pilots for commercial flight. There is no information on the period of the training course at the Ahart center.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the national aviation authorities of the U.S., and was informed that the Ahart center was suspended on October 6, 2014 for its failure in meeting flight safety standards.
Ahart Center has not informed FAA about any change in the ownership right of the center, FAA said.
According to families of the pilot trainees in Vietnam, each trainee paid fully over US$80,000 as the entire cost of the training course at Ahart. Nguyen Duc Minh, the owner of the center, signed the training contracts with the Vietnamese trainees.
Many of the trainees are unaffordable to follow training at other centers in the US. They have no accommodation because the owner of Ahart didn’t pay the rent.
Of the 79 trainees, 21 were sent by the Vietnam’s low-cost Vietjet Air and the remainders covered the cost by themselves.
Vietnamese Transport Minister Dinh La Thang recommended the state-run Vietnam Airlines to support the abandoned pilot trainees.
Phan Xuan Duc, deputy general director of Vietnam Airlines, said his agency is willing to sponsor 50 percent of the cost so that the trainees can continue learning at other centers in the US and receive them on returning to Vietnam.
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