A three-member team of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will leave for France with the black box of the ill-fated Airbus A 321 to seek assistance in decoding it, sources privy to investigation team said. Ministry of Defence gave the final nod to the investigation team to take the black box to France and the three-member team headed by Air Commodore Khwaja Abdul Majeed, Chairman Safety Investigation of CAA, will leave Islamabad in two to three days, sources revealed while talking to this scribe here on Thursday.
The process of decoding the data of the black box and data recorder of Airbus A 321 will take about one month, which would then assist in finalising the investigative report. Investigation into the crash that cost 152 lives would however continue in Pakistan and the investigation team would continue to examine the debris of the crashed plane.
The Black Box will be decoded in Toulouse France where the main factory of Airbus is located and where the facility to decode data from Airbus A 321 is available, CAA sources said, adding that this facility is not available in Pakistan.
A five-member investigation team was constituted on Wednesday with terms of reference to investigate the cause of the crash and explain why the plane was not allowed to land at Islamabad International Airport. They would also probe why the plane flying at 3600 ft altitude suddenly went higher and why it was headed towards Margalla Hills.
The Air Blue Airlines Air Bus A 321 crashed in Margalla Hills, Islamabad on Wednesday morning in which all 152 persons on board including six crew members were killed. The Airbus A320 family of medium-range jets, which includes Airbus 321 is one of the most popular in the world, with about 4,000 jets delivered since deliveries began in 1988.
Aviation experts rejected the possibility of any single factor as the cause of the crash saying there might be several factors involved in the worst air crash in Pakistan's history. The causes may range from poor visibility, management pressure, age factor, weather factor, fatigue factor, maintenance factor and loading of aircraft.
In addition, there is the possibility of what is termed as the "inevitable accident," which is essentially when the pilot assesses that the aircraft cannot land safely and opts to take it towards a sparsely populated area, the Margalla hills in this case, in a bid to forestall any collateral damage due to a crash in heavily populated areas.
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