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Karachi: The pilot of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s crashed plane ignored three warnings by the air traffic controllers on the aircraft, the altitude and the speed before landing, saying that he was satisfied and would handle the situation, according to a report on Monday.
The national flag carrier of the PK-8303 of the tragedy on Friday, in which 97 people were killed and two miraculously survived, is one of the most catastrophic aviation disasters in the history of the country.
The Airbus a-320 in Lahore, Karachi, was 15 nautical miles from the Jinnah International Airport, flying at an altitude of 10,000 feet above the ground instead of 7,000 when the Air Traffic Control (ATC) issued its first warning to reduce the aircraft altitude, Geo News quoted an ATC report said.
In place of lower altitude, the pilot replied that he was satisfied. When only 10 nautical miles left to the airport, the airplane was at an altitude of 7,000 meters instead of 3,000 metres, it said.
The ATC issued a second warning to the pilot to lower the aircraft altitude. However, the pilot replied back saying that he was satisfied and would handle the situation, saying that he was ready for the landing, the report said.
The report said that the plane had enough fuel to fly for two hours and 34 minutes, while the total time of flight, was recorded in one hour and 33 minutes.
Pakistani investigators are trying to figure out if the accident is attributable to pilot error or a technical failure.
According to a report prepared by the country of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the engines of the plane had scraped the track three times in the pilot for the first attempt of the earth, causing friction, and sparks is recorded by the experts.
When the aircraft scraped the ground in the first failed attempt of landing, the engine oil tank and the fuel pump may have been damaged and began to leak, preventing the pilot to achieve the necessary thrust and speed to elevate the aircraft to safety, the report said.
The pilot took a decision “on your own” to undertake a “go-around” after they have failed to earth the first time. It was only during the turn that the ATC was informed that the landing gear was not deploying, he said.
“The pilot was directed by the air traffic controller to take the aircraft to 3,000 feet, but managed just 1,800. When the cabin was reminded to go by the 3,000-foot level, the first officer said, “we’re trying,'” says the report.
Experts said the failure to achieve the targeted height indicates that the engines were not responding. The aircraft, from then on, bowed, and suddenly fell.
The flight crashed in the Jinnah Garden area near the Colony Model in Malir on Friday afternoon, minutes before its landing at Karachi Jinnah International Airport. Eleven people on the ground were injured.
The probe team, headed by Air Commodore Muhammad Usman Ghani, President of the Aircraft Accident and Investigation Board, is expected to present a full report in about three months.
According to the PIA’s engineering and maintenance department, the last check of the airplane was conducted on the 21st of March this year and had flown in from Muscat to Lahore, a day before the crash.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Pakistan had allowed the limited domestic flight operations of five of the major airports – Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta, 16 May.
After the airplane tragedy, the PIA has called you out of your market of operation.
This story has been published from a cable of the agency of power without modifications in the text. Only the title has been changed.
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