In their preliminary report, the investigators in charge of the crash of the Airbus A320 of the Pakistani company PIA overwhelm the two pilots of the aircraft.
The causes of the crash of an Airbus A320, May 22 in Karachi, have just been revealed by Pakistani investigators from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) who, in their preliminary report on this air disaster, conclude that the two pilots are responsible. A Toulouse team of ten people – three BEA specialists, 6 technical advisers from Airbus and one from Safran – also participated in this survey.
They get out and get in the landing gear
The crash scenario which led to the death of 97 of the 99 occupants of the Airbus of the PIA company could be reconstructed. The pilots made two approaches to Karachi airport. During the first, they logically removed the landing gear from the aircraft. But then they engaged in the reverse maneuver and retracted them again while they were approximately 9 kilometers from the runway. It appears that they appeared too high and too fast and that they wanted to use the landing gear to increase the aircraft’s drag. Once connected on the right slope, they would have folded the trains mechanically.
Pilots were talking about coronavirus
Listening to the black boxes also suggests that the pilots were not concentrated and were discussing the coronavirus during the approach procedure. Despite the alarms that went off to warn them that the trains had not left, the pilots continued the maneuver. The Airbus engines struck the runway at 400 km / h and the pilots then went around to initiate a new takeoff. The aircraft gained altitude until one after the other, the damaged A320 engines stopped working. The landing gear was then taken out, but due to a lack of power in the reactors and insufficient altitude, the aircraft dropped to 270 km / h on buildings in the city of Karachi, just 1300 m from the airport. .
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