Just got to know that an there was some real problem with one of the Airblue flight to Islamabad. Its reported as an Engine Compressor seize upon landing. Kindly inform if anybody updated about the incident.
Currently Islamabd airport is shutdown.
AirBlue engine compresser seize at Islamabad
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Passengers stranded as plane aborts take-off
ISLAMABAD, June 21: An Airblue aircraft bound for Karachi aborted take-off on Thursday after developing a technical fault at the Islamabad airport and blocked the runway for almost one and a half hours.
Airport officials said the A-321 aircraft on flight ED-209 aborted take-off at about 5.10pm. No one was injured and the passengers had to disembark on the runway.
The airstrip remained blocked till 6.30pm due to which the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) diverted three of its incoming flights to Lahore and Peshawar.
Gulf Air and Etihad planes were held up in the air as the runway was being cleared.
“The nose wheel got stuck after its pin broke,†airport manager Salman Ather informed.
Airblue’s chief executive Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi termed the incident unusual. “Luckily it did not happen at high-speed mode so there was no damage to the aircraft,†Mr Abbasi said, adding that only one of the pins was damaged while the other remained intact.
The 159 passengers of the cancelled flight were left stranded at the airport as no alternative flight was offered to them.
The passengers regretted what they called the ‘indifference and callousness’ of the airline’s staff and said that most of them vanished after the incident.
However, Mr Abbasi said the passengers would be accommodated on the next available flight and a special flight.
Source: DAWN
ISLAMABAD, June 21: An Airblue aircraft bound for Karachi aborted take-off on Thursday after developing a technical fault at the Islamabad airport and blocked the runway for almost one and a half hours.
Airport officials said the A-321 aircraft on flight ED-209 aborted take-off at about 5.10pm. No one was injured and the passengers had to disembark on the runway.
The airstrip remained blocked till 6.30pm due to which the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) diverted three of its incoming flights to Lahore and Peshawar.
Gulf Air and Etihad planes were held up in the air as the runway was being cleared.
“The nose wheel got stuck after its pin broke,†airport manager Salman Ather informed.
Airblue’s chief executive Shahid Khaqqan Abbasi termed the incident unusual. “Luckily it did not happen at high-speed mode so there was no damage to the aircraft,†Mr Abbasi said, adding that only one of the pins was damaged while the other remained intact.
The 159 passengers of the cancelled flight were left stranded at the airport as no alternative flight was offered to them.
The passengers regretted what they called the ‘indifference and callousness’ of the airline’s staff and said that most of them vanished after the incident.
However, Mr Abbasi said the passengers would be accommodated on the next available flight and a special flight.
Source: DAWN
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Only on paper. Our regulators act only under duress. CAA alongwith other govt agencies have proven time and again that they act only when their real masters (US/EU) act. The plane came from MAN and hence is subject to EU/UK inspections/regulations.zerbaer wrote:CAA is the regulatory authority in Pakistan. If you check their maint. exposition as originally submitted to CAA for AOC qualification, it might put you into irreversible trauma.
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I just talked to my dad. The flight was in his command. The 'pin' which broke was the one which lets the pilot control the movement of the nose gear. When the pin broke, the nose gear turned itself 90 degrees, hence the airplane could not move.
Eg, a car has 5 bolts on its wheel cap. If all 5 break at once, you know what would happen. Same thing happened in this case, only that there was one bolt [pin]. The airplanes nose gear was intact, it was not a major problem.
It sure seems like a big issue because this happened on the only runway at ISB, which caused in delay of other traffic and temporary airport closure.
Small things like this happen all the time in the aviation industry, so one shouldnt go to conclusion of the 'inspections' and 'bans'.
Eg, a car has 5 bolts on its wheel cap. If all 5 break at once, you know what would happen. Same thing happened in this case, only that there was one bolt [pin]. The airplanes nose gear was intact, it was not a major problem.
It sure seems like a big issue because this happened on the only runway at ISB, which caused in delay of other traffic and temporary airport closure.
Small things like this happen all the time in the aviation industry, so one shouldnt go to conclusion of the 'inspections' and 'bans'.