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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Airbus A320 crashed near Karachi airport on May 22 due to a breakdown in both engines. A huge fire broke out when the plane crashed in a residential area. Only two people survived on the plane.
“The pilot and air traffic controller did not follow standard rules,” Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan said in a parliamentary statement announcing the preliminary findings.
According to him, the pilots discussed the coronavirus pandemic while trying to land the plane.
“The pilot and co-pilot were not focused and were talking about coronaviruses all the time,” said Khan.
A team of Pakistani investigators, including officials from France and the aviation industry, analyzed the plane recorders.
Mr. Khan stated that the plane was “100 percent”. airworthiness, there were no technical failures. “
The plane crash, which has claimed the most lives in Pakistan in the past eight years, came days after the country resumed domestic commercial flights after two months in quarantine.
Many airplane passengers flew to spend the Muslim holidays in Id al Fitro with their loved ones.
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