Pakistan Aviation
  • Home
  • Aviation News
  • Editorial
  • Flight Reviews
  • Aircraft
  • Travel
  • Blog
  • Submit Article
  • About Us
  • Support Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Air Sial chairman Fazal Jillani with BOC Aviation executive signing the agreement,

Air Sial to add Airbus A320s into its fleet, adds flights to Riyadh

Indigo flight from Jeddah diverted to Karachi after a medical emergency, a passenger was found dead upon checkup

Caretaker Government of Pakistan plans to “gradually shut down” Pakistan International Airlines

Zara Airways: The story of an airline on paper that dreams of starting flights from Canada to Pakistan

Ethiopian airlines receiving its 100th aircraft.

Ethiopian Airlines resumes flights to Karachi after 19 years

Kam Air advertising flights between Mazar e Sharif and Islamabad

Pakistan Aviation
  • Home
  • Aviation News
  • Editorial
  • Flight Reviews
  • Aircraft
  • Travel
  • Blog
  • Submit Article
  • About Us
  • Support Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Pakistan Aviation
  • Home
  • Aviation News
  • Editorial
  • Flight Reviews
  • Aircraft
  • Travel
  • Blog
  • Submit Article
  • About Us
  • Support Us
Aviation News • PIA

What happened to the landing gears of PIA Airbus A320 AP-BLD flight PK8303?

May 23, 2020
18,692 Views
2 Min Read
An old photo of PIA Airbus A320 AP-BLD.
An old photo of PIA Airbus A320 AP-BLD.
Tahir Imran
1 Comment
    Share This!
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

After looking at data & photos I have come to the conclusion that the PK8303 crash has a lot to do with its landing gear & pilot. Did the pilot touch down on 1st attempt? To get the answer we need to look at this data of flight altitude which has some clues.

  • Air Sial to add Airbus A320s into its fleet, adds flights to Riyadh
  • Indigo flight from Jeddah diverted to Karachi after a medical emergency, a passenger was found dead upon checkup
  • Caretaker Government of Pakistan plans to “gradually shut down” Pakistan International Airlines
  • Zara Airways: The story of an airline on paper that dreams of starting flights from Canada to Pakistan
  • Ethiopian Airlines resumes flights to Karachi after 19 years
Altitude data show a typical climb, cruise, and descent, followed by a go around and at least one additional landing attempt.

In the above chart, we can see the plane going to the bottom & then going up & then going down later. The plane in my view landed on the runway but without landing gears. And then went up & the evidence for this is on the engine bottoms. Both charred & have marks of the runway.

In this photo you can see the rough surface of the engine’s bottom due to limited contact with the runway. Engines were damaged & instead of just killing the power & just belly land, the pilot gave it more power. This photo shows the pilot also used fire retardant to put the fire out in engines.

After gaining height the plane’s engine started failing & finally gave up before approach. On the final approach video you can see the gears are down. Which means his gears system was fine. But when his engines gave up the plane stalled, which can also be seen in the video.

On 4 February 1986 a PIA flight PK-300 on Boeing 747 AP-AYW from Karachi to Islamabad with 247 passengers and 17 crew onboard made a belly landing at Islamabad Airport. It is considered as one of the stupid acts of the Pilots. The Captain forgot to lower the landing gear.

By sharing the above example I’m just saying that such errors happen. Having said that I’m not ruling on what happened with AP-BLD. The landing gears failed to deploy? Or they were never deployed? CCTV of runway definitely can solve this. But those engines are writing on the wall.

This is one of the twi survivors who is saying "When the plane landed on runway it shook 3 times, then it went on the runway, and then I don't know what happened but the pilot lifted off the plane very cleverly. He flew for 10, 15 minutes." pic.twitter.com/GVzSKDsmDK

— Tahir Imran Mian ✈ (@TahirImran) May 22, 2020

This is one of the two survivors who is saying “When the plane landed on the runway it shook 3 times, then it went on the runway, and then I don’t know what happened but the pilot lifted off the plane very cleverly. He flew for 10, 15 minutes.”

Comments
TagsAP-BLD Capt Sajjad Gull FO Usman Azam pakistan international airline PIa PK8303

You may also like

Air Sial chairman Fazal Jillani with BOC Aviation executive signing the agreement,
Air Sial • Aviation News

Air Sial to add Airbus A320s into its fleet, adds flights to Riyadh

8 months ago
Aviation News • Civil Aviation Authority

Indigo flight from Jeddah diverted to Karachi after a medical emergency, a passenger was found dead upon checkup

November 23, 2023
Aviation News • PIA

Caretaker Government of Pakistan plans to “gradually shut down” Pakistan International Airlines

September 20, 2023

About the author

View All Posts

Tahir Imran

1 Comment

Click here to post a comment

Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

  • Abbas says:
    May 25, 2020 at 11:45

    How can we say that toga was pressed at 275 ft agl

    Log in to Reply
2 survivors and 97 passengers are now confirmed dead in PIA flight PK8303 crash
The flight data recorder of crashed PIA Airbus A320 has been recovered
Comment
    Share This!
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Latest News

Air Sial chairman Fazal Jillani with BOC Aviation executive signing the agreement,
Air Sial • Aviation News

Air Sial to add Airbus A320s into its fleet, adds flights to Riyadh

Aviation News • Civil Aviation Authority

Indigo flight from Jeddah diverted to Karachi after a medical emergency, a passenger was found dead upon checkup

Aviation News • PIA

Caretaker Government of Pakistan plans to “gradually shut down” Pakistan International Airlines

Aviation News • International Airlines for Pakistan

Zara Airways: The story of an airline on paper that dreams of starting flights from Canada to Pakistan

Ethiopian airlines receiving its 100th aircraft.
Aviation News • International Airlines for Pakistan

Ethiopian Airlines resumes flights to Karachi after 19 years

What's your opionion?

Will you travel with PIA in 2019?
Vote
  • img_5585.jpg
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
Copyright © 2016. Created by PKaviation.

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in .

Pakistan Aviation
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.