Английская Википедия:Gad Gasatura

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Gad Gasatura is a Ugandan airline transport pilot, transport management expert and former politician, who served as the Chairperson of Uganda National Airlines Company, Uganda's national airline carrier, from 2018 until 2019.[1]

Background and education

Gasatura was born in Ntungamo District, in the Western Region of Uganda. He attended Kings College Budo for his high school education, in the early 1970s.[2] He is a trained, qualified professional airline pilot. He also has a Master of Science degree in Transport Management, awarded by City University of London.[1][3]

Career

Gasatura was a member of the Constituent Assembly, which promulgated the 1995 Ugandan Constitution. He is remembered for threatening to secede if Banyarwanda were not recognized as a Ugandan ethnic group. Later, he served as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Uganda Police Force. He has also served as a pilot for the Christian organisation Mission Aviation Fellowship.[1]

Other responsibilities

Gad Gasatura has served on the Board of Directors at Barclays Bank of Uganda, Diamond Trust Bank (Uganda) and at the Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda.[1]

In 2005, Captain Gasatura was named to head a team of investigators to probe the crash of an Antonov An-12, registered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as 9Q-CIH, which crashed, soon after takeoff from Entebbe International Airport, on Saturday, 8 January 2005, killing all six crew.[4] The cause of the crash was determined to be due to "engine failure and overloading".[5]

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