KARACHI - It was supposed to be another regular flight on one of Pakistan's busiest domestic routes between its two biggest cities.
The pilots did a go-around, kept the plane in the skies for about 10 to 15 minutes, before announcing a second attempt to land. The last recorded position captured by Flightradar24 ground stations was about 5½ minutes after the initial touchdown. The plane was at an altitude of 160m."Sir, we have lost engines," the pilot said to a controller, according to a recording from LiveATC.net, which collects audio feeds from air-traffic staff.
Edhi was first alerted by witnesses, and said more people might have survived if it had got the call to be on standby the minute the aircraft reported a problem, a practice that was followed in the past. Few TV channels initially offered hope about survivors, which led Mr Usama Qureshi and a few friends to be on the road for eight hours until midnight, going from hospital to another. They waited along the footpaths of the main hospital as one ambulance after another brought bodies from the crash site, hoping to find the more than half a dozen people they knew who were on the flight.
Among the people he was looking for was his friend Zain Polani, a banker who was on the flight with his wife and kids. He was also looking for the family of his former colleague. Pakistani authorities have found the flight data recorder of the airliner but the search for the cockpit voice recorder is ongoing, Mr Abdul Sattar Khokhar, a spokesman for the nation's Civil Aviation Authority, said by phone.
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