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July 29, 2010 - On Wednesday, about 10 AM local time Airblue Airlines a Pakistani air carrier, operating an Airbus A321, Flight ED202 enroute from Karachi on approach to Benazir Bhutto International Airport (ISB), Islamabad under heavy rain and poor visibility crashed in a ball of flames into a heavy wooded area in Margalla Hills in Islamabad killing all 152 onboard.
Flight ED202
departed from The Airbus A321 was carrying 146 passengers of those passengers 5 children were onboard and a crew of four flight attendants, a co-pilot and captain. Captain Pervez Iqbal Choudry was one of the senior pilots at Airblue with more than 20 years of flight experience.
Airblue operates
scheduled flights operating 30 daily services linking four domestic
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It?s believed that
the pilot may have veered off course on his go-around and that the pilot
and air traffic control may have lost radio communications due to
weather conditions of monsoon rains and thick clouds. The Airbus A321
was manufactured in 2000 and leased to Airbue in January 2006. The
aircraft has 34,000 logged flight hours and 13,500 flights. Witnesses report they saw the Airbus A321 fly at an unusually low altitude before crashing in a gorge between two hills, there was a loud boom, a cloud of smoke and fire. Recue officials reported initially their rescue attempts had been hampered by weather conditions. Once on the seine it was extremely gruesome, with charred body parts strewed about. "I saw a big ball of smoke and fire everywhere with big pieces of aircraft rolling down the hill," said police official Haji Taj Gul. |
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