Bhoja crash: ‘Investigations may take up to 9 months’

Sources claim CDA officials also included in investigation, kept voice recorder in custody for 45 hours.


Web Desk April 24, 2012

KARACHI: Group Captain Mujahidul Islam, head of the committee investigating the Bhoja Air crash, said that all evidence has been collected from the crash site and the investigation may take up to nine months to complete.

Islam said that the debris of the plane will be reassembled, while the data recorder will be examined with the help of a US team.

Sources told Express News on Tuesday that some officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA) were also included in the investigation of the air crash.

Some CDA officials had allegedly kept the aircraft’s voice recorder and data recorder in their custody for 45 hours.

The passenger flight travelling from Karachi to Islamabad carrying 121 passengers and six crew members came hurtling down towards the outskirts of Rawalpindi at 6:46pm on Friday evening.

Among the passengers were five infants and six children. There were no survivors.

A judicial commission was formed by the government to investigate into the incident.

COMMENTS (16)

jagjit sidhoo | 11 years ago | Reply

@Nawab: This is not a joking matter please remember the loss of life that has occurred . There maybe design or systemic flaws which need to be removed at the earliest considering that there may be other planes which may have similar flaws and are putting the lives of their passengers at risk. In view of the risks involved 9 months is too slow.

jagjit sidhoo | 11 years ago | Reply

@Abbas: My dear Abbas what you are not getting is the cause for our concern . The plane has crashed and there have to be lacunae in either the design, maintenance etc of the plane. Is it acceptable to us that the fault/ lacunae are acted upon 9 months from now and in the meantime planes with similar faults are allowed to put the lives of passengers at risk?

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