Accident A 321 Airblue. Pakistan

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The aircraft involved in today's crash in Pakistan has been identified as an Airbus A321 operated by privately-owned Pakistani carrier Airblue.

Airbus says the A321 has local registration AP-BJB and manufacturer's serial number 1218.

Flightglobal's ACAS database says that International Lease Finance (ILFC) is the aircraft's owner and that it is one of three A321s in Airblue's fleet.

Airblue also operates one Airbus A320 and two Airbus A319s, says ACAS.Airbus says the A321 involved in today's crash was built in the year 2000 and that Airblue started leasing it in January 2006.

TheInternational Aero Engine (IAE) powered aircraft had accumulated approximately 34,000 flight hours in some 13,500 flights, it adds.Airblue's A321 crashed today at around 10:00hr local time on the outskirts of Islamabad.

It had been on a scheduled flight from Karachi to Islamabad and reportedly had 146 passengers and six crew on board.

The aircraft crashed into Islamabad's densely forested Margalla Hills.

There was rain and low lying cloud at the time of the crash.

Some rescuers have reached the crash site and started to recover the bodies.

But some reports, quoting from the country's interior minister Rehman Malik, say rescuers have also found five survivors so far.

The last time that Pakistan had a fatal crash, involving a passenger commercial aircraft, was in 2006 when a Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 crashed and killed 45 people.

Preliminary inquiries into the fatal Airblue Airbus A321 accident outside Islamabad last month suggest the aircraft suffered no technical problems before the crash.

Flight ED202 had been attempting to land at the Pakistani capital on 28 July but struck terrain north of the airport.
Both the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders have been successfully read by the French investigation agency Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses.
This information has enabled investigators to "determine a preliminary analysis", says a source familiar with the inquiry.
"It is fair to say that the [investigators] should have everything they need to understand what happened," the source states, adding that there is "no indication of any technical malfunction".

"The cause of this accident seems to be on the operational side."

Airbus has informed operators of A320-family aircraft that it has "no specific recommendation to raise", effectively a statement that nothing points to a need for carriers to make technical checks or modify their operations.

SEVRIEN a écrit:Bonjour, chers tous.

D'abord : merci pour ces posts ; toutes nos pensées pour les disparus, et condoléances pour les familles, bien-aimés et proches de ces victimes.

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DATE:29/07/10. SOURCE:Air Transport Intelligence news
Details emerge about fatal flight path of Pakistani Airblue A321
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Sans vouloir émettre le moindre avis prématuré, .... on dirait qu'il est à craindre, hélas, que les facteurs humains et de communication ne jouent un rôle significatif, aussi.

Jeannot a écrit:Qui oserait ?

Noté quand même ! un pilote plus qu'expérimenté, voire un peu usé !

Airblue has highlighted in the news media that the pilot in command, Capt Pervez Iqbal Chaudhary, had over 25,000hr of flying experience.

Et un avion de ILFC, plus si jeune ..., bon, mais avec 4 ans au Pakistan en plus ...
Est ce qu'ils ont soulevé le capot de temps en temps ??

Airbus says the aircraft that crashed was built in the year 2000 and had accumulated approximately 34,000 flight hours in some 13,500 flights.
ACAS says International Lease Finance is the aircraft's owner. Airbus says Airblue started leasing it in January 2006.