Emergency landing of PK770 at Milan Airport

raihans · Post by **raihans** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:27 am

This is a shocking news, is it true that this much has been loss to the 777?

http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/jul2008-dai ... ate.htm#25

AM · Post by AM » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:20 am

Aicraft is being handled by KLM engineering and they have expressed thier inability as they want to take the aircraft to hangar and longer grounding as well as spares required.

PIA engineering is sending its own team with spares to retrieve the aircraft in minimum possible time.See pics in PIC section.

raihans · Post by **raihans** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:30 am

^ any possibility for the pics to share?

pk363 · Post by **pk363** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:41 am

Very bad news as far as the extent of damage seems to have been done. Can anybody shed light on the series and reg number of the T7 involved?

Amaad Lone · Post by **Amaad Lone** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:56 am

What was the crew doing flying through such rough weather??

Should the crew have diverted before flying through the bad weather?

ammad · Post by **ammad** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:15 am

See some photo of Our BHX-

Ehsen Ali · Post by **Ehsen Ali** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:39 am

Can anyone translate, please?

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:45 am

Here's another photo of damaged PIA Boeing 777-240ER (AP-BHX) sent by forum member AM.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:50 am

Ehsen Ali wrote:Can anyone translate, please?

Here's rough translation:

PIA flight PK-770 originating from Paris had to make emergency landing at Milan Airport, Italy, after encountering hailstorm during flight.

The hailstorm has damaged aircraft cockpit windshield, nose radome/radar and dented sections of fuselage. All 280 passengers & crew aboard the aircraft are safe.

Abbas

raihans · Post by **raihans** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:01 am

Amaad Lone wrote:What was the crew doing flying through such rough weather??

Should the crew have diverted before flying through the bad weather?

same question in mind, experts please comment!

AP-BHX is on dry lease so the repairs will be on PIA's account or the leasing company's account?

FMC · Post by **FMC** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:24 am

Amaad Lone wrote:What was the crew doing flying through such rough weather??

Yeh cheez!The crew depended too much on technology. Where does that leave us. Flying a billion rupees property through this weather is criminal. The operating crew should be fired straightaway. If Ejaz Haroon knows them as the back of his hand, it could be another story. But again, technology went for a six.

muammar · Post by **muammar** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:24 am

What the hell? What were the suphisticated radar systems on 777 and on-ground doing? This is really bad. Shouldn't happen like this.

Skyraider · Post by **Skyraider** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:20 am

the crew did their job very well, what ever they do to follow the instrument according to their training, and those instruments are there not for show off.

FMC wrote:
Amaad Lone wrote:What was the crew doing flying through such rough weather??
Yeh cheez!The crew depended too much on technology. Where does that leave us. Flying a billion rupees property through this weather is criminal. The operating crew should be fired straightaway. If Ejaz Haroon knows them as the back of his hand, it could be another story. But again, technology went for a six.

jibran.shahid · Post by **jibran.shahid** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:24 am

can any one tell the crew details, what weather radar was doing as they were entering into such activity.

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:07 pm

Aircraft getting damaged by hailstorm is something not new in airline industry and in some such incidents in the past aircraft have been damaged beyond repair.

The good thing is that AP-BHX crew managed to make safe emergency landing and saved lives of everyone aboard the aircraft.

Air traffic controllers could also be responsible for this incident. I believe Italian or EU aviation officials will take part in investigation because this incident happened in their air-space and we'll have to wait for initial investigation report to know how this incident happened and whether it was avoidable or not. Unlike CAA in Pakistan, aircraft accident/incident reports are released by aviation authorities for general public viewing in most of western countries.

And, btw, following is link to an interesting page with photos showing how much hailstorm can cause damage to man-made things including aircraft.

Link: Hail Storm Photos

Abbas