PIA plane crash investigation enters ‘final phase’
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An investigation into the PIA plane crash in Karachi has entered the final phase, as Airbus experts have collected vital evidence to complete the probe.
Moreover, experts in France are analysing aerial pictures and other data of the ill-fated PIA flight PK-8303 to reach the fact of the matter.
Almost 90 percent of the wreck of the crashed aircraft has been shifted to Karachi airport and technical teams have reached the scene of the crash to bring the wing and engine of the aircraft down from rooftop of a building affected in the air crash.
The experts thoroughly inspecting the building before shifting the engine from the rooftop.
Investigation agencies are fearing collapse of the building in Jinnah Garden of Model Colony. “Wings and engine of the aircraft are expected to be brought down from the rooftop with a crane,” sources said.
French experts are expected to depart for Paris on Monday with the plane’s blackbox and cockpit voice recorder to decode it.
The director of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) issued directives for the special flight for the French team that is likely to land at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport on May 31.
A team of 11 French experts had landed in Karachi on a special Airbus 338 on Tuesday and visited the location of the plane crash in Karachi.
The investigation team of Airbus had also paid a visit to the radar centre of the Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport.
The visiting foreign experts had reviewed the arrangements at the radar centre for the take-off and landing of aircraft.
Two passenger survived the plane crash, while 97 passengers and crew members onboard the flight that crashed in a residential area near Karachi airport were killed. However, no resident of the Model Colony’s Jinnah Garden, where the plane crashed, was among the dead.