Post by walterleo on Jun 1, 2020 15:31:29 GMT
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines_Flight_8303
This crash which took the lives of 97 people on board with only two surviving happened in an AB 321 an airplane which by design should be foolproof against stalling or belly landing. Exactly the last thing happened followed by a go around and a subsequnt double engine failure and crashing into urban surroundings of Karachi international airport. The first landing attempt was way out of "ALWAYS ON GLIDSLOPE SPEED AND CENTERLINE", ATC mentionioning 3 times a go around and the gear warning chime could be heard during the ATC calls and the captain declearing "I am fine with the approach". First contact of the engines with the tarmac was around 200 kts, two more contacts followed, at 180 kts the airplane broke ground again.
The investigation will be very interesting as such a case in modern jet transport flying is very rare still more rare followed by a go around, to my knowledge it only happened with a Tu-154 flight MALEV flight 262:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Flight_262
The investigation will be interesting especially why the crew did fly such an unstablized first approach. Some theories are discussed in public:
The gear did not go down as the AB has a system to avoid gear deployment at a too high speed. The Captain chief pilot at PIA as a devote muslim was complying ramadán and did not eat or drink anything before the flight, against the company rule for that case. So pilot incapacition could be a consideration and the FO unable to correct the chief pilot. "One does not discuss with 18.000 flight hours!" More so if he is chief pilot.
Kind regards
Walter
This crash which took the lives of 97 people on board with only two surviving happened in an AB 321 an airplane which by design should be foolproof against stalling or belly landing. Exactly the last thing happened followed by a go around and a subsequnt double engine failure and crashing into urban surroundings of Karachi international airport. The first landing attempt was way out of "ALWAYS ON GLIDSLOPE SPEED AND CENTERLINE", ATC mentionioning 3 times a go around and the gear warning chime could be heard during the ATC calls and the captain declearing "I am fine with the approach". First contact of the engines with the tarmac was around 200 kts, two more contacts followed, at 180 kts the airplane broke ground again.
The investigation will be very interesting as such a case in modern jet transport flying is very rare still more rare followed by a go around, to my knowledge it only happened with a Tu-154 flight MALEV flight 262:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malév_Flight_262
The investigation will be interesting especially why the crew did fly such an unstablized first approach. Some theories are discussed in public:
The gear did not go down as the AB has a system to avoid gear deployment at a too high speed. The Captain chief pilot at PIA as a devote muslim was complying ramadán and did not eat or drink anything before the flight, against the company rule for that case. So pilot incapacition could be a consideration and the FO unable to correct the chief pilot. "One does not discuss with 18.000 flight hours!" More so if he is chief pilot.
Kind regards
Walter
