A 13-year-old teenager, severely scorched in a plane crash in Karachi, Pakistan, died in hospital. This information has been given in the media reported on Tuesday. With this, the death toll in this accident has gone up to 98. On May 22, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) PK-8303 flight carrying 99 passengers from Lahore crashed in Jinnah Garden, a residential area of Model Colony in Karachi, in which 97 passengers died. Two passengers survived.
Nahida, along with her two sisters Azija (20) and Mahira (18), worked as domestic helpers in the model colony, according to the news of the Dawn newspaper. When the plane crash happened, she was cleaning the house as usual. She was badly burnt in the accident. At the same time, in a preliminary report on the plane crash, serious questions have been raised about the pilot operation of the aircraft. The report stated whether crew members in the cockpit were prevented from informing air traffic controllers about the crisis.
Pakistani investigators are trying to ascertain whether the flight number PK-8303 was caused by a pilot's fault or due to a technical glitch, reports Geo News. According to the report prepared by the country's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the engines of the Airbus A-320 touched the runway three times in the first attempt by the pilot to land the aircraft, causing friction by experts.
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