Controvery Sorrounding Airblue Plane Crash
By Tahir Hameed • Jul 29th, 2010 • Category: Politics • 4 CommentsThere is a lot of controversy surrounding the crash of the Airblue flight 202 in the Margalla Hills. In cloudy weather, the Airbus A320 carrying 146 passengers and 6 crew people had tried to land but had been asked to circle the airport because of heavy air-traffic. The airliner was in the hands of a 65 year old experienced flying ace. It is said that he could have landed the airliner blindfolded.
Experts say that airliners are supposed to circle the airport in a radius of 3-5 miles. However when the plane struck the hills it had nearly touched the 10 miles radius mark.
One really wonders whether the air traffic controllers had been alert and communicated to the captain that the plane was low and that they were out of bounds so as to say.
When the plane struck the margalla hills people on the 18th floor of the Saudi Pak Building located in Islamabad actually saw the plane flying low and crashing in the mountains. It is said that the first people to reach the spot of the crash were students from a nearby madrassah and from the International Islamic University. It was also made up of individual volunteers groups and of journalists. Men from Rescue 1122 also showed up quickly at the place of disaster.
A lot of scavenging men and women from nearby areas also showed up( they were more interested in picking up all the valuables of the dead).
It is stated there were a number of elite force officials who showed up but nothing to help in this quest. There are a number of CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY stations in the area that work to put out fires. However even they did not show up or help. The fires that were set by the exploding airplane were put out by the rain that day. Since the wreckage lay on a very steep front of the hills, it was very difficult for people and rescue teams to reach the spot of the crash.
There is no organized force that deals with such eventualities and once again the navy and the army were slow to show up at the area of disaster.
One really hopes that the black box is used to reveal what happened in the last minutes before the airliner crashed into the Margalla Hills.
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The view point is very much pathetic since the writer seems to rely upon he hear say and presumptions as evident from the statement recorded in the parenthesis at para 5. People in Pakistan are fearful of GOD and seeing death before them they are least interested in the valuables of dead. The writer forgot o mention that the the people living nearby reached to rescue even before any government agency. This is really remarkable that how touchy the people are to help their fellow nationals who even did pot hail from their own locality. I am of the opinion that we should seek positive aspects in every gloomy scenario because every weakness gives way to strengths.
Why are writers so much alergic to the Army and the Forces? Army and the forces are not a bunch of Civilians who are free to move anywhere at will, they act upon orders and always organise themselves before any move. You will never see in any army of the World, soldiers rushing out of Barracks to take independent actions! without orders.
Army is invariably called in by the government. An organised move always takes time.I feel the Army Aviation took too much of a risk in flying under adverse weather conditions in Mountaineous terrain so close to the Mountains which is otherwise forbidden.
A compliment to their courage was what should have not been overlooked.
Is the Army designed or trained for rescue operations? the answer is NO! Just because it is better equipped that it is asked to come in aid of the civil government
Our country and our circumstances demand that all the Press, Judiciaryand the Army should unite to thwart the ememies og the country whom we all recognise. Unfortunately THE PAKISTANI SPECTATOR does not seem so much Pakistani for its purported stance against those who ultimately come to the rescue of the Nation.
I fully support the views of Irfan and Kaiser
After seeing the footage of the rescue by the different Army Navy,Airforce and Police teamsand the way the helicopters were flown close to the mountains I think the actions performed by each citizen were by no means less than any western standard
We should learn to point out the good things that come out of us all in such moments of crises.Let the genuine Experts look into the causes of this unfortunate accident and trust their judgement as an outcome of the inquiry
I am a lawyer in this for one of the victim family. I was just looking for some information.. Thank you all for writing..
Regards,
Salman Khan Golra
Advocate