ISLAMABAD: The investigation report into the crash of Airblue flight has been completed and submitted to the federal government, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Thursday.
The investigation report will be released on the receipt of comments from State of Manufacture and State of Design namely BEA-France (Airbus), NTSB-USA, (IAE) and BFU-Germany, a CAA release said.
A detailed investigation by an expert team headed by the President Safety Investigation Board was carried out. All aspects including the internal and external sabotage, incapacitation of the aircraft systems, in flight fire, bird strike or structural fatigue, human factor, organizational factors, have been adequately analysed in the investigation, it said.
The investigation into the crash of Air Blue Flight No. ABQ-202 was ordered by the government.
Airblue has offered to fly 150 family members of the crash victims whose bodies were not identified, to the Margalla Hills in Islamabad free of charge. The families will then be taken to the H block where the mass burial of victims took place last year.
The aircraft had 152 persons on board, including six crew members. It took-off from Karachi at 07:41 am for Islamabad on July 28, 2010.
At around 9 am, while executing a circling approach for RWY-12 at Islamabad, it flew into Margalla Hills, and crashed at a distance of 9.6 Nautical Miles (17.77 Kilometers), on a radial 334 from Islamabad VOR.
The aircraft was completely destroyed and all on board the aircraft perished.
Source: Express Tribune
