Air Crash Daily | Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight 268 News Reports @AirCrashDaily | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Accident Description: instagram.com/p/CjC-65vPrM7/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ด was a scheduled international passenger flight from Karachi to Kathmandu, operated by an Airbus A300 (Reg. AP-BCP) on ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ด, ๐ญ๐ต๐ต๐ฎ.
The plane departed Karachi at 06:13 UTC. The en route portion of the flight was uneventful. At 08:37 the co-pilot reported that the plane was approaching the SIM (Simara) beacon at FL150, whereupon procedural clearance was given to continue to position SIERRA and to descend to 11,500 feet. At 08:40:14, he reported that the plane was approaching 25 DME whereupon the crew were instructed to maintain 11,500 feet and change frequency to Kathmandu Tower. At 08:42:51 the co-pilot reported โOne six due at eleven thousand five hundredโ.
The controller responded by clearing the plane for the Sierra approach and instructing the crew to report at 10 DME. At 08:44:27 the co-pilot reported 10 DME and 3 seconds later he was asked, โReport your levelโ. He replied, โWe crossed out of eight thousand five hun,โ two hundred nowโ. The controller replied with the instruction โRoger clear for final. Report four DME Runway zero twoโ. The co-pilot responded to this instruction in a normal, calm and unhurried tone of voice; his reply was the last transmission heard from the plane, 32 seconds after the co-pilot reported 10 DME the plane crashed into steep, cloud-covered mountainside at 7,280 feet at 9,16 DME.
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"The balance of evidence suggests that the primary cause of the accident was that one or both pilots consistently failed to follow the approach procedure and inadvertently adopted a profile which, at each DME fix, was one altitude step ahead and below the correct procedure. Why and how that happened could not be determined with certainty because there was no record of the crew's conversation on the flight deck.
Contributory causal factors were thought to be the inevitable complexity of the approach and the associated approach chart."
Accident Description: instagram.com/p/CjC-65vPrM7/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ด was a scheduled international passenger flight from Karachi to Kathmandu, operated by an Airbus A300 (Reg. AP-BCP) on ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ด, ๐ญ๐ต๐ต๐ฎ.
The plane departed Karachi at 06:13 UTC. The en route portion of the flight was uneventful. At 08:37 the co-pilot reported that the plane was approaching the SIM (Simara) beacon at FL150, whereupon procedural clearance was given to continue to position SIERRA and to descend to 11,500 feet. At 08:40:14, he reported that the plane was approaching 25 DME whereupon the crew were instructed to maintain 11,500 feet and change frequency to Kathmandu Tower. At 08:42:51 the co-pilot reported โOne six due at eleven thousand five hundredโ.
The controller responded by clearing the plane for the Sierra approach and instructing the crew to report at 10 DME. At 08:44:27 the co-pilot reported 10 DME and 3 seconds later he was asked, โReport your levelโ. He replied, โWe crossed out of eight thousand five hun,โ two hundred nowโ. The controller replied with the instruction โRoger clear for final. Report four DME Runway zero twoโ. The co-pilot responded to this instruction in a normal, calm and unhurried tone of voice; his reply was the last transmission heard from the plane, 32 seconds after the co-pilot reported 10 DME the plane crashed into steep, cloud-covered mountainside at 7,280 feet at 9,16 DME.
๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ:
"The balance of evidence suggests that the primary cause of the accident was that one or both pilots consistently failed to follow the approach procedure and inadvertently adopted a profile which, at each DME fix, was one altitude step ahead and below the correct procedure. Why and how that happened could not be determined with certainty because there was no record of the crew's conversation on the flight deck.
Contributory causal factors were thought to be the inevitable complexity of the approach and the associated approach chart."
