Airblue Flight 202

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Airblue Flight 202
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The crashed Airbus A321-231 AP-BJB at Manchester Airport in June 2010
Accident summary
Accident type controlled flight into terrain ( CFIT )
place Margalla Hills , Pakistan
date July 28, 2010
Fatalities 152 (all occupants)
Aircraft
Aircraft type Airbus A321-231
operator Airblue
Mark AP-BJB
Departure airport Jinnah International Airport , Karachi , Pakistan
Destination airport Benazir Bhutto International Airport , Islamabad , Pakistan
Passengers 146
crew 6th
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Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled flight of Airblue from Karachi to Islamabad , one on the 28 July 2010 Airbus A321-231 crashed during the landing approach. The machine crashed in thick fog and heavy monsoon rain in the Margalla Hills , killing all 152 occupants.

It is the worst aircraft accident to date in Pakistan and the first accident involving an Airbus A321 with fatalities.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved in the accident was an Airbus A321-231 with the aircraft registration AP-BJB . The aircraft was delivered new to Aero Lloyd in 2000 , then used by Aero Flight from 2004 before it was handed over to airblue in 2006 . It had about 34,000 flight hours on 13,500 flights behind it.

Course of the accident

The aircraft took off at 7:50 local time (01:50 UTC ). According to initial reports, the air traffic controllers at Benazir Bhutto International Airport lost contact with the aircraft at 09:43 local time (03:43 UTC). The bad weather had meant that another aircraft had to move to another airport 30 minutes before the crash.

Flight 202 headed for Islamabad from the southwest, following a guideline according to which flights should be flown in the direction of the airport until visual contact is possible. The machine should then fly north and east a distance of 9.3 km around the airport to line up for runway 12, which runs south-east. The plane crashed into the mountains outside of the 9.3 km radius (about 15 km north of the airport).

While the BBC declared the authorities with "There was nothing in conversations between the pilot and the Islamabad control tower that suggests anything was wrong." quoted (in German: "The radio contact between pilots and air traffic control in Islamabad did not indicate any problems."), information from the New York Times suggests that this was not the case. The newspaper claims that the pilots had been warned that they were going to leave the runway, whereupon the pilots "I can see." answered (in German: "I see that."). The air traffic controller instructed the crew to turn left immediately, as the Margalla Hills were directly ahead (“Immediately turn left, Margalla Hills are ahead.”). The pilots replied again that they saw this (“We can see it”). A spokesman for the airline said that no emergency call was made.

According to the official accident report, the master did not react to multiple indications from the first officer or to a total of 21 warnings from the EGPWS ground warning device .

Pakistan's interior ministers stated that the plane was at 2,600 feet when it approached  Islamabad, but rose to 3,000 feet before it crashed. The altitude flown of 2,600 feet within the 5 km radius of the airport was above the minimum safe for the descent of 2,510 feet above sea level and 852 feet above ground.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final report of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority ( Memento from January 3, 2012 on WebCite ) (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  2. ↑ Pakistan plane crashes with 152 on board. In: Agence France-Presse . July 28, 2010; Archived from the original on July 31, 2010 ; Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b Pakistani plane with 152 aboard crashes. MSNBC , July 28, 2010, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  4. ^ A b Rob Crilly: Passenger plane crashes outside Islamabad. In: The Daily Telegraph . July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  5. ^ Katie Cassidy: Pakistan Plane Crash Near Islamabad: Airliner Said To Be Carrying More Than 150 People. Sky News , July 28, 2010, archived from the original on July 31, 2010 ; Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Alex Rodriguez: Jet carrying 152 crashes in Pakistan. In: Los Angeles Times . July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Flight accident data and report from Airblue flight 202 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  8. ^ Occurrences involving Airbus A321-231. Aviation Safety Network, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Simon Hradecky: Crash: AirBlue A321 near Islamabad on Jul 28th 2010, impacted mountaineous terrain near the airport. The Aviation Herald , July 28, 2010, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  10. ↑ AirBlue AP-BJB. Airfleets, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  11. ^ Airblue flight ED 202 accident in Islamabad. Airbus , July 28, 2010, archived from the original on July 28, 2010 ; Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  12. ↑ a b Passenger plane crashes in hills near Pakistan capital. BBC News, July 28, 2010, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  13. ^ A b c Adam B. Ellick: No Survivors in Pakistan Plane Crash, Officials Say. In: The New York Times . July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010 .
  14. ↑ a b S. Hradecky: Crash: AirBlue A321 near Islamabad on Jul 28th 2010, impacted mountaineous terrain near the airport. In: The Aviation Herald . July 28, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .
  15. ↑ 2 US citizens killed in plane crash in Pakistan. Associated Press , July 28, 2010; archived from the original on July 31, 2010 ; accessed on November 22, 2014 (English).
  16. ^ Reza Sayah, Nasir Habib: Plane with 152 on board crashes in Pakistan; no survivors. CNN, July 28, 2010, accessed July 28, 2010 .
  17. ^ J. Fallows: Reference Document on the Pakistan Crash. In: The Atlantic . July 28, 2010. Retrieved July 28, 2010 .