Contact lost with PK661

knucklehead6

just had a tweet from Airlive.net to say contact lost with PK661

http://www.airlive.net/breaking-pakistan-international-pk661-to-islamabad-has-lost-contact-with-atc/

robyntmorton

Just broken on Sky News - 40 on board.

PK660/661 was a route Islamabad - Chitral - Peschwar and back, served by an ATR

Chitral itself is a tiny little mountain airport, serving just this flight. Not a great bit of terrain to disappear into.

Link to Sky: http://news.sky.com/story/missing-pakistan-plane-crashed-after-take-off-according-to-police-10686552

devnull

Appears that plan has had a history of being involved in incidents:

http://avherald.com/h?article=47acb83b&opt=512 (2014 - same engine)
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20090530-0 (2009 - Bad landing)

smurfjed

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Pakistan's national airline has been widely mocked for sacrificing a goat next to a plane to ward off bad luck, weeks after a crash which killed 47 people.[/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]An ATR turbo-prop plane, operated by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), crashed into a mountain on December 7, bursting into flames and killing all those on board.[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]PIA subsequently grounded its fleet of 10 ATR pending detailed inspections.[/font]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But today, as the airline cleared the planes for take-off again, some employees went for a more traditional safety measure - sacrificing a black goat on the runway at Islamabad airport, only yards from the aircraft. [/font]

Pat Dunne

smurfjed wrote: »

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Pakistan's national airline has been widely mocked for sacrificing a goat next to a plane to ward off bad luck, weeks after a crash which killed 47 people.[/font]

No real different, from the time, when the Aer Lingus fleet used to have the local Padre arrive up on a Christmas day and splash a few drops of water on a plane and declare the fleet "blessed" http://ifiplayer.ie/radharc-blessing-the-aer-lingus-fleet/ and to this day still name their planes after after a group of mostly irrelevant, medieval "Christian Saints".

Each to their own!

knucklehead6

Pat Dunne wrote: »

No real different, from the days from when Aer Lingus flet used to be blessed by the local Padre http://ifiplayer.ie/radharc-blessing-the-aer-lingus-fleet/ and is still name after a bunch of local Saints.

Actually, there's a pretty big difference.

Irish Steve

OK folks, can we please get back on topic, which is the accident that happened to PK661, the manner in which various operators give their passengers a comfort factor about their operation was a long and inappropriate stretch, and has been deleted, it was in severe danger of provoking one of the moderators to start taking action beyond deleting off topic posts.

Please move on.