What Caused the Pakistan Air Crash?
Pakistan International Airways Flight 8303 was cleared for instrument landing, but as ATC recordings show, the crew aborted the landing due to an unknown technical problem with the landing gear and went around.
Based on information being released by the Civil Aeronautics Association of Pakistan, ARY News is reporting that left engine scrape marks of #PK8303 were found 4500 feet from the runway threshold; right engine scrape marks started at 5500 feet, meaning the plane made ground contact that might have caused engine damage.
The black scrape marks can be seen on the fuselage and engines in the below picture:
It is not known yet why the crew decided to go around after the engines had ground contact and didn’t consider that they’re most likely damaged. The black box recordings should shed some light on that question.
According to recordings being released from ATC radio, the crew aborted landing on 25L and went around with damaged engines.
As the engines were damaged, they failed soon after the aborted landing and go around and the crew reported an engine failure and the plane subsequently crashed in a residential area just short of the runway.
From my perspective as an aviation professional and industry analyst, based on the current available information, this disaster was likely caused by pilot error.
Something to take note of was that the plane had already deployed its RAT (Ram Air Turbine). The RAT is a little propeller that pops out from the fuselage to provide electrical and hydraulic power. This tends to occur when you are facing a very damaged aircraft and there is no other power coming in to the plane this is your last ditch source of power.
Why did the plane go around for a second landing? It could be something as simple as the first landing was unstable or maybe there was a goat crossing the runway?
Could they have simply forgotten to deploy the landing gear?
Where everything went sideways was the failed 2nd landing attempt.
Map of the airport and the yellow circle denotes the crash scene.
According to one of the 2 sole survivors from the flight Muhammad Zubair, "No-one was aware that the plane was about to crash; they were flying the plane in a smooth manner...I could hear screams from all directions. Kids and adults. All I could see was fire. I couldn't see any people - just hear their screams. I opened my seat belt and saw some light - I went towards the light. I had to jump down about 10ft (3m) to get to safety,"
There are reports from the tower that the CRC (Continuous Repetitive Chime, a beacon to alert pilots to an error in their airplane) chime kept going off when they checked in with the tower. CRC is the airbus chime that is saying “hey pay attention to me”
Written by Ümit Tobias Celik, Edited by Alexander Fleiss
My Experience With Coronavirus
Why did Coronavirus Spread so Fast?
Coronavirus and Globalization Moving Forward
Disinfecting Surfaces Against Coronavirus
Contagion Risks from Coronavirus
Coronavirus Oxygen Supplementation 101
Coronavirus: The Global Economic Impact
Coronavirus Causes Long Term Problems?
Online Coronavirus Scams Proliferate
What Is The True Coronavirus Case Fatality Rate For Young People?
How Likely Are Young People to be Hospitalized With Coronavirus?
Living On The Edge of A New Society
Coronavirus Will Test the Limits of Our Hospitals
Coronavirus Catapults Global Testing Innovation
Spain Suffers Under Coronavirus
Data, Models & Misinformation on the Coronavirus
Coronavirus Travels the Silk Road
Coronavirus Attacks Italy's Sick and Elderly
Is the New Coronavirus Drug a Cure?
What is the Mystery of Germany's Low Coronavirus Fatality Rate?
The World Will Be More Technologically Advanced After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Why has the Coronavirus Not Exploded in Japan?
Italy's Coronavirus Death Rate is Falling
Coronavirus Speeds Up Robotic Revolution
Economic Depression Will Destroy More Lives Than Coronavirus
Can Hydroxychloroquine be Used to Treat Coronavirus?
Northern Italy & Wuhan: Partners for Better or Worse
The Race for the Coronavirus Cure
How Did Taiwan Manage the Coronavirus so Well?
What is the US Coronavirus Fatality Rate?
Travel Ban Saves Airlines Billions
Deep Learning Detects Coronavirus
Singapore's Coronavirus Patients Have a 0% Mortality Rate So Far... Why?
AI is Mapping the Coronavirus and Inferring its Possible Economic Impact
Coronavirus: Fact from Fiction
Death From Covid-19 is Not From the Coronavirus:
An Interview With NYU Langone Health Professor & Rheumatologist Dr. Gary Solomon
Coronavirus Attacks Italy's Sick and Elderly
Interview with NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly: An American Hero
Why Choose Machine Learning Investing Over A Traditional Financial Advisor?
Interview With Home Depot Co-Founder Ken Langone
Interview with the Inventor of Amazon's Alexa
Automation and the Rebirth of American Retail
China Debuts Stealth Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle
Sweden's Economy Embraces AI & Automation
Austria's Automated Ai & Robotic Future Is Now
Nuclear Submarines: A 7,000 Lb Swiss Watch
Ai Can Write Its Own Computer Program
On Black Holes: Gateway to Another Dimension, or Ghosts of Stars’ Pasts?
Egypt's Artificial Intelligence Future
Supersonic Travel: The Future of Aviation
Shedding Light on Dark Matter: Using Machine Learning to Unravel Physics’ Hardest Questions
When High-Tech Meets Low-Tech Economy: Ai & the Construction Industry
Aquaponics: How Advanced Technology Grows Vegetables In The Desert
The World Cup Does Not Have a Lasting Positive Impact on Hosting Countries
Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Forex Market
Do Machines Dream? Inside the Dreams of a Machine
Can Ai Replace Human Ski Coaches?
Faster than Sound and Undetectable by Radar
The Implications of Machine Learning on Condensed Matter Physics & Quantum Computing
Crafting Eco-Sustainability: WTC and Environmental Sustainability
Argentina's AI Future: Reversing a Century of Decline
Tennis & Artificial Intelligence
Peru's Ai Future Will Drive Economic Growth
The Colombian Approach to the AI Revolution
How AI Can Explain Its Thinking
Brazil & Artificial Intelligence