Airblue Flight 202

The crashed Airbus A321 -231 AP- BJB

Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled flight from Karachi to Islamabad airblue, an Airbus A321 -231 crashed on 28 July 2010 during the landing approach. The plane crashed in dense fog and heavy monsoon rain in the Margalla Hills, and all 152 passengers were killed.

It is the heaviest plane crash in Pakistan's history and is the first accident of an Airbus A321 with fatalities.

Aircraft

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

Misfortune course

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

Flight 202 headed to Islamabad from the southwest and was following a policy for which to be flown in the direction of the airport until visual contact is possible. The machine should be flying around with a distance of 9.3 km around the airport to the north and east in order to line up for runway 12, which runs to the southeast. The plane crashed outside the 9.3 -km radius (about 15 km north of the airport ) in the mountains.

While the BBC those responsible with quotes " There was nothing in conversations in between the pilot and the Islamabad control tower did Suggests anything was wrong. " ( In German: " The radio contact between pilots and air traffic control in Islamabad pointed to no problems. " ), interpret information from the New York Times points out that this was not so. The newspaper refers to the fact that the pilots were warned that they wegflögen from the runway, whereupon the pilot " I can see. " Replied ( in German: ". I see "). The air traffic controller instructed the crew to to turn immediately to the left, as the Margalla Hills were directly ahead ( " Immediately turn left, Margalla Hills are ahead. "). The pilot replied again that he saw this ( "we can see it "). A spokesman for the airline said that no emergency call was issued.

According to the official accident report, the captain responded neither to multiple notes of the first officer still on a total of 21 warnings from the ground EGPWS warning device.

Pakistan's Interior Minister stated that the airplane was in 2600 feet altitude, as if it had approached Islamabad but rose to 3000 feet before it crashed. Flown altitude of 2600 feet within the radius of 5 km from the airport was above the minimum for the safety Sinkhöhe of 2510 feet above sea level and 852 feet above ground.