327 KPH? Wouldn’t that make it impossible to stop the plane anyway even if the wheels WERE down?
Wow — belly scrape of the runway?
Supposed to be impossible.
Guess not.
Bad altitude readings?
From another site:
Pakistan’s Minister for Civil Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan told reporters on Thursday the plane’s engines touched the ground three times on the first attempt at landing.
“The pilot never announced his landing gear wasn’t opening. He haphazardly touched the engines thrice with the ground,” Khan said.
“All marks are present [on the runway]. He was not at the proper height ... Control tower informed him you aren’t at the required height, lower your altitude,” he said, adding that the pilot replied, “I will manage.”
According to communications posted on liveatc.net, an aviation radio monitoring website, the pilot told the controllers “we are comfortable now” during the approach, but the reason for the remark has left most experts puzzled.
Shortly after the engines scraped along the runway in the aborted first landing attempt, the pilot reported problems in maintaining altitude, then said both engines had failed.
Investigators are expected to examine whether the engines shut down because of their collision with the runway, following what appeared to be a steeper and faster approach than normal.
The lower part of the engine housing contains key components including an accessory gearbox and hydraulic pumps.
“All sorts of things can happen to an engine if you bounce it down the runway,” a person familiar with its design said.
That’s 203 mph. Normally, a passenger jet aircraft such as this one (A320) lands at about 140 knots (161 mph).
If you are without power any turn you make is going to cost
you altitude or speed.
Lots of pilots have been killed trying to return to the
field.
Apparently a distraction in the cockpit;they missed the gear up buzzer alarm
Maybe he pressed #2 for Spanish.
They pakis. Pakis be dumb. Idiots
As we found out 9/11/2001, muzzie pilots are not good at landings.
Maybe the pilots were on their prayer rugs?
IFF
In Flight Fight
Maybe they were rocking out to all the bells, whistles and buzzers going off in the plane, they probably thought it was some new age music.
Sudden jihad syndrome?
3rd-world idiots playing with 1st-world toys?
Oh, yah...and they have nukes, too
You realize you landed with the gear up when it takes full power to taxi to the gate.
If you are interested in learning the facts about this crash, there is a youtube.com blog that goes by the name Blancolirio. It is run by Juan Browne, a long time commercial airline pilot. He has had three highly detailed reports on what transpired on that flight.
He does not draw conclusions, only presents the facts. In my opinion it likely will be determined to be pilot error as the plane was far above both the landing altitude and speed prescribed for that airport, and that the landing gear did not drop down because the plane was going too fast. Then the bottoms of both engines hit the runway as he attempted to take back off. It may well be that he was one hot shot pilot who made one last fatal mistake that resulted in the deaths of 100 people.
I saw this bizarre story on TheFlightChannel on YouTube. The guy who runs it uses Microsoft Flight Simulator to re-create accidents and incidents from around the world. He got the story about the PIA crash out in 4 days.
After watching it, I cannot imagine what the ever-loving hell the pilots were thinking. It makes no sense whatsoever.