Plane crash: Bhoja Air steps in

We want everyone to stop speculating, says airline's PRO.

KARACHI: Bhoja Air’s public relations officer Jasir Abro said “we want everyone to stop speculating. We’re trying to find out what happened, where, and how it happened. As soon as we find out more information about the crash the list will be made public.” However, Bhoja Air did not have a focal person to deal with the crisis, unlike Airblue, which did in the aftermath of the 2010 plane crash. When people working on the Bhoja Air desk were asked what their crisis management plan was, they said, “We have a crisis management plan, it’s on the books,” but couldn’t answer when asked to provide a protocol or standard operating procedures. Meanwhile, Bhoja Air announced that an aircraft will carry one member each of the families’ affected by the crash at 7am today. The Malir deputy commissioner also told reporters that a PIA airplane had been arranged to take family members to Rawalpindi free of charge. REPORTING BY: SHAHERYAR MIRZA IN KARACHI, Maha Mussadaq AND Qaiser zulfiqar IN ISLAMABAD WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM AGENCIES

Published in The Express Tribune, April 21^st, 2012.