Pakistan’s aviation minister said “human error” on the part of the pilot, the co-pilot and air traffic control caused last month’s plane crash in the port city of Karachi that killed all 97 people on board. Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan, presenting preliminary findings in Pakistan’s probe into the crash in parliament, said the pilot ignored instructions from air traffic control while trying to land. The air traffic control told the pilot three times that the plane was too low to land but he refused to listen, saying he would manage, Mr Khan said. The minister added that for its part, the air traffic control did not inform the pilots about the damage caused to the engines after the plane’s first failed landing attempt. “The engines of the plane were damaged when they scrubbed the runway but the air traffic control did not inform the pilot,” he said.

Source: Irish Independent June 24, 2020 12:45 UTC