KARACHI: The Aircraft Accident Investigation Board on Tuesday filed a progress report before the Sindh High Court with regard to Pakistan International Airlines’ ATR crash incident at Havelian in December 2016, mentioning that the ATR’s failure sequence was triggered because of a fracture of turbine blade consequent to one procedure anomaly of PIA maintenance.
Filing the progress report before the SHC, which was hearing a petition seeking a judicial inquiry into the December 2016
flight PK-661 crash inquiry in which 42 passengers, including singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed and the crew lost their
lives, AAIB President Air Commodore Usman Ghani submitted that the
board was of the view the crash event was one of its kind that had never been experienced earlier on any other ATR aircraft internationally.
The AAIB submitted that there were two latent technical anomalies and one latent condition and failure events occurred in a sequence where one preceded another.
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