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PLANE CRASH
- The Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying 91 passengers and eight crew members crash-landed into the Jinnah Housing Society located near the Karachi airport.
- Ninety-seven people were killed and two passengers miraculously survived a deadly crash after a Pakistan International Airlines plane with 99 travellers on board plunged into a densely populated residential area near the Jinnah International Airport here, officials said on Saturday.
PLANE CRASH
- Flight PK-8303 from Lahore crashed at the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir on Friday afternoon, minutes before its landing in Karachi, they said. Eleven people on the ground were injured.
- The Airbus A320 aircraft of the national carrier had 91 passengers and a crew of eight.
CAUSE
- According to a PIA official, the captain informed the air traffic control that he was having problems with the landing gear before the aircraft disappeared from the radar.
- The plane with 99 people on board came for landing but just before landing the pilot said he was going for a goaround. While coming for a second landing, it developed some problems and crashed.
- Pakistan has set up a four-member board of inquiry to know the cause of the crash.
WHAT IS PAKISTAN’S SAFETY RECORD LIKE?
- Pakistan has a chequered aviation safety record, including a number of airliner crashes.
- In 2010, an aircraft operated by private airline Airblue crashed near Islamabad, killing all 152 people on board – the deadliest air disaster ever in Pakistan.
- In 2012, a Boeing 737-200 operated by Pakistan’s Bhoja Air crashed in bad weather on its approach to land in Rawalpindi, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.
- And in 2016, a Pakistan International Airlines plane burst into flames while travelling from northern Pakistan to Islamabad, killing 47 people.
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