HOW TO PIA PK-661 CRASH.
Crash.
The aircraft left Chitral Airport at 15:30 PST and was expected to land at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad at around 16:40. Before the crash, the crew issued a mayday call. The aircraft crashed 60 minutes after taking off,leaving wreckage ablaze on the side of a hill between the villages of Saddha Batolni and Gug near Havelian in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province about 90 kilometres (56 mi) from the capital. The wreckage was reported to be strewn over an area about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) across. Civilian and Pakistan Army personnel and helicopters were sent to the area for search and rescue operations. Taj Muhammad Khan, a government official, stated that all the bodies were burned beyond recognition. The remains were taken by air to forensic laboratories in Islamabad and Rawalpindi for DNA testing to aid identification.
This was the seventh aircraft accident resulting in hull loss sustained by PIA since 2000. Of the seven, one resulted in fatalities; that of PIA Flight 688 in 2006, in which 45 people were killed.
The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority is responsible for investigating civil aviation accidents in Pakistan. Aviation officials were reported to have suggested that the crash "may have been due to an engine failure."[16] Investigators retrieved the aircraft's flight recorder soon after the crash.
No comments