Pakistan International Airlines #8303 Shocking Final Report!

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[scarybaldguy]

I would call this flight a clown show, but that's an insult to honest, hard-working clowns.

[geraldo]

Im a professional pilot for nearly 18yrs. And ive never seen such a bizarre lack of airmanship like this before. Jesus.

[boyo]

1) Thank you so much for reviewing this report and going over it in such detail. Your educational guidance helps save lives.
2) YouTube FAILS at their monetization program...educational content like this gets pushed under the fake AI driven/extravagant "throw money around like children" content. It's absolute bullcrap that you get hit while others can just go along their way. Such a double standard.
3) Keep it up, don't let them stop you from publishing, and know your community supports all you do!

[Vincent_Sullivan]

21:15 The Captain says to the FO: " He (the ATC) will be surprised at what we have done." He was correct about that...

[demef]

In other words, Google's attempt to spare SOME advertisers' tender ears, meant it demonitized Juan's highly-instructive videos that sought to investigate why 106 people were needlessly killed. Thank God no advertisers were harmed in this crash due to Juan's intransigence!

[steveanderson]

I spent a couple of years working in Saudi. Ramadan is a bizarre time. Our approach was to try to stay in our compound during Ramadan. Pretty much everyone is highly stressed during that time. Muslims that are fasting are not just not eating, but not smoking or drinking fluids. They are hungry, dehydrated, caffeine or nicotine deprived, and thinking about nothing much more than sunset when they can resume normal functions. Muslims that are cheating and eating are stressed because of guilt. Non Muslims who are eating are REQUIRED to hide (no food or tobacco odors shall escape) while they eat, smoke, or drink for fear of starting a riot, but regardless, the animosity level from observant Muslims is palpable. To make matters worse, at sunset, the party starts and runs until the wee hours of the morning. Many of the people who are used to a night's sleep start the next day with little of it and start it all over again.

You don't do anything important during Ramadan

[brianeaton]

The airplane had more desire to live than the crew did.

[gnicholson]

My association with PIA went back a long way, when they sold some B720Bs to another airline, which then contracted a third party maintenance engineering operator to do a 'D' inspection. This revealed enormous corrosion problems. PIA records which came with the aircraft indicated that inspections in the relevant airframe areas had been completed on schedule.

It was obvious that these records were false. Fortunately the corrosion was caught before any failure.

As soon as we got discovery of the records the case settled for large sums, but that is not the point as safety had been seriously compromised.

That was over 30 years ago No wonder the nickname is 'Please inform Allah'

Signed: Airline Captain and Aviation Lawyer.

[leokimvideo]

I have a saying about nepotism, it makes sure a whole lot of unemployable people get a job. And in there lays the problem, so often these people get a job and they are totally unsuited, unskilled and uninterested in the work. In these sorts of countries a bribe is sadly often a way to pass a test. From this damning report I will certainly never fly PIA

[ninonino]

The fact that the airbus became airborne after scraping down the runway on the Nacells is quite shocking and a testament to quality aircraft.

[pulpmysteryfan]

The problem with this mindset is that the pilot knows that in 17, 000 hours of experience, with thousands of landings, no matter how unstable the approach, he always came through and landed the plane. Apparently, their training and procedures never made clear the incontrovertible, non-negotiable nature of limits, checklists, and procedures.

[UncleRicoOSU]

“We can make it, god willing” is a wild thing to tell the tower in a perfectly operational airplane.

[yobbn]

Unbelievable incompetency. You're absolutely right, the people of Pakistan deserve much better.

[sultanniazi]

This report is Pakistan in a nutshell. My poor cousin Khalid died. Rip brother.

[Trevor_Austin]

I’m impressed that no punches were pulled in this report. The investigation team should be commended for their work. It is sad that this accident started years prior and was the result of many failures. The accident itself was just the final chapter in this story. I hope the next chapter is PIA’s turnaround.

[merylpelosi]

The only flight crew (sic) I know of that ever crashed the same aircraft twice on the same flight. For not being an Airbus pilot, you have a lot of knowledge about their flight systems. Your honest, informative, sometimes tongue in cheek reporting is refreshing in this day of sometimes biased stories by writers that know nothing about aviation, commercial or otherwise. Keep up the great content.

[Tld]

I fly the Airbus and this incident has showed me that that bird is one tough SOB. I’m impressed with its ability to crash, slide down a runway and get airborne again. This scenario screams Tenneriffe all over again with a overbearing captain that acts demanding to overcompensate for his inabilities and inadequacies. Unfortunately every airline has these small pecker A holes so nothing has changed.

[Ryanboy]

This is a scathing report for PIA. Its unbelievable to me that a pilot Captain with over 17, 000 hours would act the way this pilot did. The F.O. shared plenty of blame as well. It's been a known issue that PIA is not the safest airline out there but this report really drives that home.

[garydwater]

I flew the narrow-body Airbus (319, 320, 321) for more than twenty years as a Captain. This story is unbelievable.

[stellarpod]

In 1991 I flew PIA on a business trip from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Islamabad, Pakistan without incident. But, the following day, I flew PIA from Islamabad to Karachi aboard what appeared to me to be the oldest, most decrepit 747 in existence. It was a scary flight, not only from my observations of shoddy maintenance of the interior (and presumed similar lacking maintenance of the airworthiness aspects), but also from the extreme turbulence encountered during the flight. Upon our safe landing I was never so glad to be on the ground, and I vowed NEVER AGAIN to fly PIA.

Just one passenger's experience.

As always, thanks so much for sharing.

Steve