Karachi - Islamabad

On July 28, 2010 at 09:41 AM, Karachi - Islamabad experienced a crash involving Airbus A321, operated by Airblue, with the event recorded near Islamabad Islamabad Capital Territory (<U+0648><U+0641><U+0627><U+0642><U+06CC> <U+062F><U+0627><U+0631><U+0627><U+0644><U+062D><U+06A9><U+0648><U+0645><U+062A>).

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a mountains crash site.

152 people were known to be on board, 152 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 146, passenger fatalities: 146, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Flight ABQ202, operated by Airblue, was scheduled to fly a domestic flight sector Karachi - Islamabad. The aircraft had 152 persons on board, including six crew members. The Captain of aircraft was Captain Pervez Iqbal Chaudhary. Mishap aircraft took-off from Karachi at 0241 UTC (0741 PST) for Islamabad. At time 0441:08, while executing a circling approach for RWY-12 at Islamabad, it flew into Margalla Hills, and crashed at a distance of 9.6 NM, on a radial 334 from Islamabad VOR. The aircraft was completely destroyed and all souls on board the aircraft, sustained fatal injuries.

Aircraft reference details include registration AP-BJB, MSN 1218, year of manufacture 2000.