PIA ATR Flight PK-661 Crashes Near Havelian

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inducedrag wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:33 am
Flyer1015 wrote: Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:37 am Will the report be published online like they did for Airblue and Bhoja?
Next generation will be able to read it by the time ATR will be phased out
As per Avherald, on 28 Jan 2019, Nepal's AAIC released their final report US-Bangla DH8D at Kathmandu which took place on Mar 12th 2018, that is within 11 months. Don't know how long would it take for CAA Pak to release their report. It has already been over two years since accident.
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When no body have "SAAF NIYAT" to bring out the truth, report won't be coming out. Simple!
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday strongly censured the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for its failure to complete the inquiry into the 2016 Havelian plane crash.

Justice Aamir Farooq rejected the CAA’s request for eight more months to complete the probe and ordered the authority to submit the inquiry report by the first week of March.

The court was hearing a petition for a judicial investigation into the accident filed by the mother of the ill-fated flight’s co-pilot.

The directives come 26 months after Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-661 from Chitral crashed in the hills of Gagan, some seven kilometres away from Havelian city.

Among the 48 passengers and crew on the Islamabad-bound flight was popular singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed, two Austrians, and a Chinese national. The plane was an ATR-42 turboprop aircraft.

During the hearing, the court was told that several of the aircraft’s parts were made by French and American firms and the investigation was being delayed because of slow-paced communication with the manufacturers.

On this premise, the CAA presented a request for more time to complete the inquiry which was rejected by Justice Farooq. The judge ordered the aviation authority to finalise the report for submission at the next case hearing, which will be scheduled for the first week of March.

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1905410/1- ... ane-crash/
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During the hearing, the court was told that several of the aircraft’s parts were made by French and American firms and the investigation was being delayed because of slow-paced communication with the manufacturers.
LOL! This is absolutely untrue. The French and American firms would have given all the requested information and communications a long time ago. Unlike the CAA and SIB in Pakistan, these foreign aviation entities are competent and get the job done.

Now that the judge is demanding the report to be published in one month, it's going to be a rush-job by the SIB and the report will seem ridiculous.
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Flyer1015 wrote: Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:27 pm
During the hearing, the court was told that several of the aircraft’s parts were made by French and American firms and the investigation was being delayed because of slow-paced communication with the manufacturers.
LOL! This is absolutely untrue. The French and American firms would have given all the requested information and communications a long time ago. Unlike the CAA and SIB in Pakistan, these foreign aviation entities are competent and get the job done.

Now that the judge is demanding the report to be published in one month, it's going to be a rush-job by the SIB and the report will seem ridiculous.
Send the invistagation team on visit to USA and Europe
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CAA would never be able to complete this investigations, they neither have the expertise nor the will. As good muslims, we should say fateha for the victims, and accept this crash as an act of fate, and close this tragic chapter.
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TAILWIND wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 6:36 am CAA would never be able to complete this investigations, they neither have the expertise nor the will. As good muslims, we should say fateha for the victims, and accept this crash as an act of fate, and close this tragic chapter.
Absolutely not! Fatals of last 13 years: 2006 PIA at Multan, 2010 Airblue in ISB, 2012 Bhoja approaching ISB, 2016 PIA approaching ISB. That's 3 of the biggest airlines (only airlines) with fatal losses in a very short period of time. This is unacceptable by ANY measurable metric. You cannot just accept accidents as fate and close the chapters. We must learn from them, why it happened, and how it can be prevented from happening again. That is how the NTSB and FAA operate in the US here, and Pakistan should learn something as well. Pakistan's aviation safety is a joke. You have the wrong people appointed in the wrong positions. They should be merit based appointments (as opposed to political favors and nepotism). They need to overhaul aviation safety in the entire country from top to bottom.
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High court directs CAA to file comments on plea seeking investigation of plane crash

The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and others to file comments on a petition seeking a judicial inquiry into the Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 crash in which 42 passengers and crew, including singer-turned preacher Junaid Jamshed and his wife, lost their lives.

The petitioner, Syed Iqbal Kazmi, submitted in his petition that an Islamabad-bound flight of the national flag carrier had crashed after it took off from Chitral on December 7, 2016. He submitted that the CAA director-general (DG) had sent a letter to his high-ups in which startling disclosures were made about the functioning of ATR planes.

The petitioner said 20 incidents were recorded wherein the engines of the ATR planes used by the national flag carrier had stopped during flights. Besides, 90 cases of ATR planes’ removal of engines were recorded as well.

He argued that after the occurrence of such incidents in the past, it was the constitutional obligation of the cabinet division secretary, the CAA DG and the PIA chairman to refrain from purchasing outdated planes, using them and risking the lives of passengers and crew. He alleged that the respondents violated the Article 9 of the Constitution as well as the civil aviation rules.

Kazmi pleaded to the SHC to conduct a judicial inquiry into the PK-661 plane crash to fix the responsibility on the officials responsible for it, prosecute them and order compensation of the legal heirs of the victims of the crash. He requested the court to direct the respondents to ground all the planes currently being used by the national flag carrier and order their inspection by the CAA or any other independent investigating agency or department.

A division bench of the SHC headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar directed the CAA and other respondents to file comments on the petition by April 11 and adjourned the hearing.

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The aircraft suffered an engine malfunction, a broken turbine blade, on the left engine in flight (# 1 engine). This caused a shut down of the engine and also contributed to the erratic behaviour of the propeller of that engine. This condition may have caused a not flyable condition on the remaining engine because of the nature of high drag generated by the dead engine propeller; it may not have feathered, that is aligned itself to the airstream to reduce the drag on the aircraft. Normally in case of an engine failure in such airplanes, the propeller auto feathers, aligning itself to the airstream to prevent drag automatically. The other engine (# 2) could not overcome this condition to develop sufficient speed to prevent a stall. The stall warning sounded during these last moments.

What the pilots could have done?

This is merely speculative. I remember when reading of the accident about the higher temperature at altitude (ISA + 5 or 10). The air is rarified here and the power which is available at sea level is not available in its entirety.

The aircraft had an obstacle clearance from the terrain of at most 1500 to 2000 feet. The suddenness of the emergency allowed the speed to decay.

A gradual descent towards lower terrain could have been attempted, but it seems that the aircraft was out of control for such afterthoughts to have been attempted.

The Fokker F-27 and likewise this aircraft, the ATR 42-500 can safely fly on one engine, though a controlled descent would have been in order here because of the lowered density of the air.
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thank you for input on the occurrence, very tragic indeed it was, however, with your vast flying experience, please shed some more light if it was avoidable in anyway even with these circumstances? And any simulation has been run in simulator to see if the flight was possible to continue to OPRN or even clear the terrain area while landing at any leveled area if not able to made up to OPRN?
smhusain_1 wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:21 am The aircraft suffered an engine malfunction, a broken turbine blade, on the left engine in flight (# 1 engine). This caused a shut down of the engine and also contributed to the erratic behaviour of the propeller of that engine. This condition may have caused a not flyable condition on the remaining engine because of the nature of high drag generated by the dead engine propeller; it may not have feathered, that is aligned itself to the airstream to reduce the drag on the aircraft. Normally in case of an engine failure in such airplanes, the propeller auto feathers, aligning itself to the airstream to prevent drag automatically. The other engine (# 2) could not overcome this condition to develop sufficient speed to prevent a stall. The stall warning sounded during these last moments.

What the pilots could have done?

This is merely speculative. I remember when reading of the accident about the higher temperature at altitude (ISA + 5 or 10). The air is rarified here and the power which is available at sea level is not available in its entirety.

The aircraft had an obstacle clearance from the terrain of at most 1500 to 2000 feet. The suddenness of the emergency allowed the speed to decay.

A gradual descent towards lower terrain could have been attempted, but it seems that the aircraft was out of control for such afterthoughts to have been attempted.

The Fokker F-27 and likewise this aircraft, the ATR 42-500 can safely fly on one engine, though a controlled descent would have been in order here because of the lowered density of the air.
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In the absence of investigation report, all we can do is guess, yet an engine failure in descent phase added with auto-feather malfunction, is not a catastrophic event. However commenting from the comfort of one's laptop and managing an emergency from the cockpit with a stricken engine are two absolutely different things.
Hope the elusive report see daylight some day.
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An engine failure with no auto feather on that is cause for concern in any mode of flight; besides trying to maintain control of the aircraft on single engine, the dead engine’s propeller is preventing any forward speed due to a high drag unfeathered condition, and possibly preventing forward flight. The #1 engine is the critical engine which is another cause for concern regarding VMCA; forgotten the theory! The air density is lowered; the temperature is greater than ISA, the height above terrain. All these factors interplay. The suddenness of the event can also be remarked upon.
Should we hang up our thinking or speculation just because we were not present in the cockpit?
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PK-661 plane crash: PHC directs federal govt to submit final investigation report

PESHAWAR:
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday directed the federal government through the Civil Aviation Authority’s secretary and Pakistan International Airlines chairman to submit the final investigation report on the PK-661 plane crash by the end of December, this year.

All 47 passengers, including Junaid Jamshed and Chitral Deputy Commissioner Osama Warraich, were killed when the PK-661, en-route to Islamabad from Chitral, crashed near Havelian on December 7, 2016.

A division bench comprising Justice Ikramullah Khan and Justice Musarrat Hilali issued the direction to the Civil Aviation Authority secretary and PIA chairman in the writ petition.

The petition was filed by Shahzada Iftikharuddin, the then Member National Assembly (MNA) from Chitral, and Adnan Zainul, brother of one of the victims Salman, through Barrister Asadul Mulk.

They sought the directions for the government to release the final investigation report and compensation to legal heirs of the victims.

Barrister Asadul Mulk, the counsel, submitted that the petitioners being aware of the fact that investigation into the causes of the crash of PK -661, like any other air crash investigations, would take time and patiently waited for the final report.

He informed the bench that the petitioners were initially verbally informed by the PIA and Aviation Authorities acting through their employees/agents that the investigation would take a few months.

The counsel said months had passed and the PIA and Civil Aviation Authority backtracked from own statements and assured the family members of the victims the report would be released in a year.

He pointed out that now more than a year had passed but the respondents were still unwilling to committing themselves to a timeline and propose a date or a tentative date for the release of the final investigation report of the tragic plane crash.

Arshad Jamal Qureshi appeared for CAA in the case. He submitted that black box and other necessary materials of the crashed plane had been sent abroad for examination and when the report was received, it would be shared with the prime minister and then submitted to the court.

However, he said the final report would still take months.

On this, the court asked him to submit the report by end of December 2019. It observed that it was being given sufficient time in the form of six months to conclude the report.

The court fixed the case for January 15, 2020, with the direction to the respondents that non-submission of the final investigation report by the next hearing would tantamount to contempt of court and the court would deal with it accordingly.

The petitioner stated that in his capacity as an elected representative, he was duty bound to convey the plight of the aggrieved families, approached various authorities to the government.

Barrister Asadul Mulk pointed out to the court that not all liabilities had been discharged as under the Carriage by Air Act 2012, Rs5 million was the minimum quantum, in respect of which liability could not be excluded, but it did not represent the upper limit.

However, Mehmood Alam Khan, counsel for PIA, requested the court to grant more time to respondents as they had already discharged all their monetary liabilities towards the victims.

Should the final report reveals negligence on part of the carrier, then in such a scenario the Carriage by Air Act 2012 allows each individual to quantify his or her losses separately, which would be treated as additional to the Rs5 million already extended, he added.

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Report on the Havelian Plane Crash Still to be Completed

Mohammad Asghar

August 14, 2019

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An ATR plane’s flight (PK-661) crashed near Havelian on Dec 7, 2016, killing all 47 people on board.

A six-member investigation team comprising three Canadian and three French experts visited the crash site in Havelian to examine the wreckage of the plane.

The Civil Aviation Authority’s Safety Investigation Board (SIB) had also launched an investigation into the crash, but its report is still awaited.

PIA’s spokesman Mashhood Tajwarr confirmed that the report on the Havelian plane crash was still to be completed, but a preliminary report comprising “precautionary comments” had been released by the authorities concerned.

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Indonesian authorities have released a comprehensive, detailed and analytical report exactly one year after Lion Air flight JT-610 (B737 MAX) crash. How long would it take CAA/SIB to finalise PK-661 investigation report.