B732, vicinity Islamabad Pakistan, 2012

B732, vicinity Islamabad Pakistan, 2012

Summary

On 20 April 2012, the crew of a Boeing 737-200 encountered negative wind shear during an ILS final approach at night in lMC and failed to respond with the appropriate recovery actions. The aircraft impacted the ground approximately 4 nm from the threshold of the intended landing runway. The Investigation attributed the accident to the decision to continue to destination in the presence of adverse convective weather and generally ineffective flight deck management and noted that neither pilot had received training specific to the semi-automated variant of the 200 series 737 being flown and had no comparable prior experience.

Description

On 20 April 2012, a Boeing 737-200 (AP-BKC) being operated by Bhoja Air on a scheduled domestic flight from Karachi to Islamabad as BHO 213 failed to complete a night ILS approach to destination in adverse Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) weather and the wreckage of the aircraft was subsequently found approximately 4nm from the threshold of the intended landing runway on the extended centreline of the intended landing runway. The aircraft was completely destroyed by ground impact and all 127 occupants were killed.

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the Pakistan CAA Safety Investigation Board. The wreckage of the completely destroyed aircraft was found 4.2 nm from the runway 30 threshold, with no signs of a post impact aircraft fire present. There was minor property damage in the vicinity of the impact site but there were no ground casualties. The FDR and CVR were recovered and subsequently were successfully downloaded by the NTSB.

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