Aerospace Diary

Posted by- Neelam Mathews April 2, 2012 The Pakistan government has approached the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) to appoint experts for inquiry into the Airblue plane crash following the Peshawar court expressing dissatisfaction over the previous inquiry report. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) had sent a letter to ICAO.A senior law officer of CAA, Ubaidur Rehman Abbasi, informed the bench that they were awaiting outcome of their request made to ICAO. The ministry of defense had last month issued a notification for appointing a board of accident inquiry into Airblue flight accident, which crashed on July 28, 2010, at Islamabad leaving 152 persons dead. The notification said that the board should exercise powers, conferred o it under the Civil Aviation Rules 1994, and furnish report to the ministry of defense within 30 days.

News Neelam mathews The Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (PALPA), President Captain Sohail Baloch has said the Airblue Airbus 321 flight that crashed and killed 152 on board near Islamabad could be attributed to pilot fatigue. The aircraft lost communication with the control tower following bad weather. The impact height is said to be around 3000 ft. and crash site is 35 to 40 degree off runway 30. Airblue flight 202 took off from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on early Wednesday morning and was expected to land at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad. Airblue has 3 A321s- one down now - and 2 A319s. “The pilot may be suffering from accumulated fatigue because they are not given adequate leave,” Baloch told a private news channel. Baloch said the route was not a no-fly zone, as was being speculated. The plane exceeded the safety distance due to bad weather. He said “this decision was taken by the pilot who could not determine the appropriate landi...