Pakistani captain did not tell airport about faulty gear
The captain of a Pakistani airliner that crashed last week, killing 97 people on board, approached Karachi airport without announcing he couldn’t open his landing gear and hit the runway three times, a government minister said on Thursday.
Search teams recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of the Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi last Friday, a spokesman for the airline said. Two people on board survived.
Flight PK8303, from Lahore, came down less than a mile short of the runway as it was making a second attempt to land. The flight data recorder has already been found. Minister for civil aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan told reporters the plane’s engines touched the ground three times on the first attempt at landing.
