KARACHI: The captain of the Pakistani passenger jet that crashed in the hills of Islamabad on Wednesday was a top professional flying into one of the most testing airports for pilots, a colleague said.Islamabad airport’s location is not an easy destination to fly into,” Hashim Raza Gardezi, a former colleague of Pervez Iqbal Chaudhry who piloted the doomed Airbus A-321, told AFP.
The craggy Margalla Hills to the north of the capital and unpredictable wind patterns can make an approach extremely difficult he said, going so far as to describe Islamabad as “one of the worst weather conditions in the world”.“Irregular wind systems surround the Margalla Hills often make it difficult for the pilots while in the air,” Gardezi, a pilot for state Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), said.
Airblue’s flight 202 from Karachi was coming into land at Benazir Bhutto International airport when witnesses saw a jet flying at unusually low altitude then heard a loud boom.Gardezi told AFP that Chaudhry, was a true professional.
“Chaudhry was one of the finest professionals in this field… who never took unnecessary risks during his professional career.” Procedures for safe landing at Islamabad advise pilots not to descend lower than 1,000 feet (300 metres) unless they have full visibility of the runway.Gardezi said half an hour before the crash, a PIA flight was diverted to the eastern city of Lahore owing to poor weather conditions.
“With the experience Chaudhry had, I suppose the weather had got better by then prompting him to go for landing,” he told Geo television.Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the pilot had been in contact with the control tower at the airport until just before the crash.
“In the last conversation with the control tower, the pilot had been given landing clearance and the plane was proceeding normally for landing before it crashed into the hills,” said Riaz-ul-Haq, the authority’s deputy director.
The civil aviation authority said all possible causes would be investigated, including terrorism and bad weather, although officials gave no indication that an attack might have been to blame.
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AOA, According to my Personal Observation flight ED 202 Crashed due to Technical Fault Occured While taking a Round Over Air Port towards North. Then Captain had Decided that he has not enough time to go back at Air Port to land there then he wanted to take Out the Aircraft from the Living Area for Crash Landing, and due to Bad Weather he did not Judge and hitted in the Hills.
Muddassar Malik
1 Aug 10 at 1:54 pm
Multiple factors are involving , in aviation the accident is not the result of one mistake . The weather was bad and every one is aware of it. The aircraft was technmical fit as confirmed by airblue officials itself . Aircraft was not aged and also have good market rating. The main thing is is Human Factor and that is the main cause of the accident in my opinion . some times the age diffrence between captain and first officer makes captain more comlicant / over confident and first offcier feel reluctunace to giude captain in command. There is also the issue of crew fatique , may be the captain was busy whole night for “ibadat ” because of shabrat and fasting as well. So multple factors are theire only weather was not involve. Now the competence of personnel/ team involving in investigation matters. Black box readout will guide them easily for the correct course of investigation. I simply pray for all souls , May Allah Subhnaotala rest all of them in peace Ameen.
ADNAN NAZIR
5 Aug 10 at 8:54 am
Every factor was just an excuse, they all had completed their lifetime .. nd we all should be agree to the god’s will and pray that they all rest in peace.
I lost my brother in law in it , nd he has 8 month old boy , just started saying Abba the day his father died!
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