Havelian airplane crash investigation report challenged in SHC

On 7 December 2016, Pakistan Worldwide Airways Flight 661, a home passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR 42-500 twin-turboprop, crashed close to Havelian. All 47 folks on board, together with singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed and the Deputy Commissioner of the District of Chitral have been lifeless.

Khalid Mumtaz in his plea acknowledged that crashed ATR airplane was defective from 2013. “Full information of the ATR airplane fault is out there.”

The applicant pleaded with the court docket to order instant grounding of all ATR plane of Pakistan Worldwide Airways. The SHC has served notices to the PIA and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan and has sought their response on the following listening to.

The ultimate investigation report, acknowledged {that a} fractured turbine blade triggered a “sophisticated” sequence of failures that culminated within the deadly Havelian PIA crash in 2016.

“The dislodging / fracture of PT-1 blade of No 1 Engine occurred after omission from the EMM (Non-Compliance of SB-21878) by PIA Engineering throughout an unscheduled upkeep carried out on the engine in November 2016, by which the PT-1 blades had fulfilled the factors for alternative, however weren’t changed,” in keeping with a report.

The report mentioned that in February 2017, PIA Engineering reviewed the lifetime of the previous design PT-1 blades. “PIA Engineering determined to vary the gentle life as a tough lifetime of 10,000 hrs no matter the situations given within the upkeep handbook (an motion overboard in the direction of secure aspect).”

The report mentioned that almost all most likely, the PT-1 blade had fractured through the earlier flight (Peshawar to Chitral).