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Eye witness says he saw a ball of fire before the crash.
Some reports suggest it was hit by lightning .
Some reports suggest it was hit by lightning .
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From current live footage it seems to be crashed in open fields
Bro - can you confirm this i just been told it was Baria Town residential complex - and we have family their?
The aircraft are B-737-200 advanced.. recently refurbished and updated with new avionics.
Currently the airline was using foreign pilots.. with local ones undergoing conversion and training.
It was a new lease of life for this airline.. short lived apparently.
According to reports.. the aircraft went in nose first...
Aircraft had Ground Proximity Warning Systems..
The weather was inclement but not that bad since I was driving a km or so from the crash site a few min ago... It just turned to hell in a matter of seconds.. I heard a sound but it could have been thunder.
Too many variables to speculate upon right now though.
It's not just the visibility but the stormy weather, in any case this is not the official statement rather an eyewitness account.
Bro - can you confirm this i just been told it was Baria Town residential complex - and we have family their?
I just hope this is not a true replica of the Airblue Bad weather crash. At the time i found out that Islamabad Airport ( which is actually in Rawalpindi ) does not have ILS on both ends of the active runway and so for one end that lacks ILS approach, the pilot has to make a " Circle to Land " approach while staying within the 5 statute miles of the airport. In bad weather while making a "circle to land approach" pilots sometimes lose sight of the runway because they are in a continous turn.
Without ILS approach availability, flights to ISB should be discontinued in Bad weather. When will we learn ?