Pakistan Probe: In The Memory of Airblue Flight 202

Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight which crashed on 28 July, 2010 near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing all 146 passengers and six crew aboard. It is the worst air accident to occur in Pakistan to date. The aircraft, an Airblue operated Airbus A321-231 narrow-body jet airliner, crashed in the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad during a flight from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport to Benazir Bhutto International Airport. Air traffic controllers reportedly lost contact with the flight crew during its attempt to land in dense fog and heavy monsoon rain.

AP-BJB, the Airblue Airbus A321-231 involved in the accident, photographed at Manchester Airport on 24 June 2010, just over a month before the crash

Accident summary
Date	28 July 2010
Type	Under investigation
Site	Margalla Hills, Pakistan 33°44′23″N 73°3′29″ECoordinates: 33°44′23″N 73°3′29″E
Passengers	146
Crew	6
Fatalities	152 (all)^[1]
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Airbus A321-231
Operator	Airblue
Tail number	AP-BJB
Flight origin	Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan
Destination	Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad, Pakistan

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Air blue 202 with its crew members

Black box of crashed plane in Pakistan found on 31 July 2010.

to be sent to abroad for decoding

Hassan Adeel, Orient Maccnn

Naveed Ilyas, DGM Buying, Mediacom

Ali Sherazi, Manager Communications,

died...., mohammad ali mughal

Members Of Youth Parliament...!!!

She was my student, just passed her grade 6, her elder sister, younger brother and mother also died in the crash. May Allah give them a special place in heaven (Aameen).

S/L (retd.) Muntajib an ace Mirage & F-16 pilot. He was co-pilot on Air Blue Flight 202.

newly married couple living in gulshan -e- iqbal karachi got married on 23 July 2010

Mrs.Ume Habiba

Mrs Naheed bhatti

Mrs.Hina Usman khan

Mrs. Shazia Razzaq

My sis friend............MRs javeriya faraz

First Officer....Air Blue Flight 202

Captain.Pervez Iqbal chaudhry

CAPT ANSAR ABBAS, OUR DEAREST BIRTHDAY BOY, CELEBRATING HIS FINAL 25TH BIRTHDAY. ANSAR U R GONE TO SOON.... STAY HAPPY AS ALWAZ...

RIP Hasan , he left his wife and two kids behind.
please rem him in ur prayers.
you will be missed.

Aesar Ali, who lost his life in plan Crash may Allah grant him and other,s a place in heaven, Ameen.

she ws 18 and groom ws 24 newly married couple living in gulshan -e- iqbal karachi got married on 23 july

just got married on Friday 23

pray 4 mY dear frnd "PYAR ALI" who took SAHADAT-E-PAKin plan crash al marghala hill's islamabad. Khuda wanda us ki roh ko manzil-e-maqsood per pohonchay,ALLAh us ki roh ko sukon naseeb karay. AllAH us ki roh ko janat-ul-firdos mai azeen jagha dai.
AMEEN" PLZXZ PARY 4 MY FRND

i love my friend

Bichra Kuch Iss Ada Se K Rut He Badal Gai
Ek Shakhs Sare Shehar Ko Veeran Kar Gia

For all above pics thanks to [Zafar Alam Khan <*****@pathfinder9.com]

The plane was found near Daman-e-Koh viewing point in the Margalla Hills outside Islamabad. The Los Angeles Times reported that "television footage of the crash site showed smoke and burning debris strewn in a swathe cutting through the forest. Rescue helicopters hovered overhead. Fire was visible, and smoke was blowing up from the scene."

Early reports in the morning had stated that there were over 40 injured survivors, later revised at around midday to around five to six people having been rescued, before Interior Minister Rehman Malik confirmed in the afternoon that there were in fact no survivors. Pakistani footballer Misha Dawood, of Diya Football Club, Karachi and former national athlete Zafar Saleem, who was director-general of the Sindh Workers Welfare Board, were killed in the crash.

At the time of the accident, the pilot had 35 years and more than 25,000 hours of flying experience. Of the passengers, 110 were men, 29 were women, 5 were children, and 2 were infants. Six members of the Youth Parliament of Pakistan were on board as were three off duty air hostesses and four foreign nationals.

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