PIA 8303 crash in Karachi on Friday

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Anyone following this? I did have a look for other threads but couldn't see any.

There are two pretty startling things about it which seem to be fact:

1. It crashed in a tight residential area, killing nobody and injuring 8;
2. It appears to have been largely caused by trying to land an A320 without, you know, extending the landing gear...
 
Buddy said:
Anyone following this? I did have a look for other threads but couldn't see any.

There are two pretty startling things about it which seem to be fact:

1. It crashed in a tight residential area, killing nobody and injuring 8;
2. It appears to have been largely caused by trying to land an A320 without, you know, extending the landing gear...
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Never enjoyed landing at Karachi as it always seemed to land from the West across the city.

The only report I've seen suggested that one engine had failed prior to a mayday.
 
Video on the internet. Sure the landing gear is down.

Report saying the pilot may have scraped the engines on the runway causing damage on a go around.
 
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Appears that the gear was down on the second approach, but not on the first, hence the engine-scraping.
 
When in first happened the Pakistan Aviation Authorities said there was no survivors, 2 hours later there was at least 3 !?!?
 
Isn't there like some form of audible alarm that sounds if you try to land a plane without the landing gear down?

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That was the thinking bear, but there seems to be some evidence that the computer never recognised the wheels on the ground.

I'm reading this off pprune and I am by no means an expert, but I think what's being said is: if the wheels had touched the ground at any point, the system would have recorded a default altitude reading of 0, regardless of radio or pressure altitude. And it didn't.

No zero reading
 
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