Pakistan Airlines plane crash: At least two of the 98 on board survive as A320 plunges into crowded Karachi suburb.

A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed yesterday in a crowded neighbourhood near the airport in Pakistan's port city of Karachi after an apparent engine failure during landing.
Officials said there were two survivors from the plane but also found at least 57 bodies in the wreckage.
It was unknown how many people on the ground were hurt as the Pakistan International Airlines jet, an Airbus A320, plowed into an alley and destroyed at least five houses.
The pilot of the Pakistani International Airlines Flight 8303 was heard transmitting a mayday to the tower shortly before the crash of the Airbus A320, which was flying from Lahore to Karachi.

:-(

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/05/22/Dump-truck-with-raised-bed-collides-with-highway-overpass/6501590179906/

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Jim Witkowski said he was driving Thursday near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport when he noticed a dump truck traveling nearby with its bed raised.

Witkowski said he tried to pull ahead of the driver to flag him down, but the vehicle was heading too quickly near an oncoming bridge.

The man pulled over and recorded on his cellphone as the truck's bed collided with the bridge.

Witkowski said the cab kept going for about 50 feet with the bed broken off at the bridge.

The driver of the truck was not injured, Witkowski said.

Pakistan Airlines plane crash: At least two of the 98 on board survive as A320 plunges into crowded Karachi suburb.

A jetliner carrying 98 people crashed yesterday in a crowded neighbourhood near the airport in Pakistan's port city of Karachi after an apparent engine failure during landing.
Officials said there were two survivors from the plane but also found at least 57 bodies in the wreckage.
It was unknown how many people on the ground were hurt as the Pakistan International Airlines jet, an Airbus A320, plowed into an alley and destroyed at least five houses.
The pilot of the Pakistani International Airlines Flight 8303 was heard transmitting a mayday to the tower shortly before the crash of the Airbus A320, which was flying from Lahore to Karachi.

:-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwfkN5M-bSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFhGnCOtcc8

so sad.

Additional on Pakistan Airlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0LY7ma1cA
Damn shame.

PIA A320 PK 8303

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SYmp3qb3uO4U-LbbWgiFfBc-7HdvT6N

There is a lot of discussion about this particular accident on various aviation forums.

After about 5 days, it is fairly clear what happened, but not Why ?

It is certainly a very bizarre accident.

The approach was too high, too fast, and the landing gear was almost certainly UP when Both Engines were scraped along the runway for a few thousand metres or yards.

The engines both failed due to the damage, while the aircraft was in the circuit for a second approach.

When will they learn?
Man tracks girlfriend’s phone to jail, both charged with DWI, Arlington police say

A man who tracked his girlfriend’s phone to the Arlington Police Department was arrested on a DWI charge after showing up intoxicated at the jail, where she was being held on the same charge, police said Friday.

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When will they learn?

It is called felony stupid for a reason.

Lol... Woman scolds mom for letting kids drive toy car without a license

“These kids are driving all over the place!” the woman complains in the footage posted on TikTok....

“They’re playing. That’s what the park is for,” the woman shooting the video responds.

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Driver dies after being ejected when dump truck flipped on north Fort Worth freeway

... when his truck rolled over and he was ejected, according to authorities.

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light-plane crash at Yarram

The 17-year-old piloting the plane only suffered minor scratches.
The pilot's grandfather, aged in his 70s, was flown to the Alfred Hospital in a serious condition.
His injuries were sustained after he unbuckled his seatbelt and fell from the cockpit.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Woops!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53076806

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

There are times when it's better not to blend in,

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Grant
Darwin NT

https://www.facebook.com/bruce.quanz/posts/2701212920159074

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Interim Accident Report (PDF)

https://www.caapakistan.com.pk/Upload/SIBReports/AAIB-431.pdf

Discussions in Pakistan and UK based forums.

https://historyofpia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=198940
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/632693-pia-a320-crash-karachi.html

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling !

https://youtu.be/DZsqGUDGTSc

Interim Accident Report (PDF)

Yeah, that just boggles the mind.
That sort of behaviour by the cockpit flight crew shows that it wasn't just a one off event- it would have been going on for some time & a sign of serious work culture issues there.
If you ever need to need to fly in Pakistan, put PIA at the bottom of your list.

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Grant
Darwin NT

It certainly looks like a systemic issue :-(
What confuses me is they had the undercarriage down, then retracted it before the skid-and-go. That crew had really lost awareness of what was going on with the plane :-( (Isn't part of the pre-landing checklist "check three greens", with response "three greens"?)
There was a bit of sloppiness in some of the controller's communications, but that is no excuse for the pilot-flying not just announcing a go-around when he (should have) realised that they were too high/fast.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-international-airlines-grounds-150-pilots-bogus-licenses-deadly-crash-flight-8303-karachi/

Pakistan International Airlines grounds 150 pilots over "bogus" licenses after deadly crash

PIA spokesman Abdullah Hafeez Khan told AFP that a government probe last year had found about 150 of its 434 pilots were carrying "either bogus or suspicious licences".

You mean they continued to let them fly for months after they knew they had fake licenses?