Nearly four years after a Pakistan International Airlines' flight crashed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, killing 47 people, a probe report has said that the aircraft had three “technical anomalies” for which the airline's engineers were responsible, according to a media report.
The plane crashed near Havelian in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on December 7, 2016, killing all 47 passengers and crew on board the ATR42 aircraft of the national carrier.
Junaid Jamshed, a singer-turned-preacher, was among the people killed in one of the most disastrous air crashes in the country's aviation history.
The Aircraft Accident and Investigation Board (AAIB) completed its investigation into the crash and revealed that the aircraft had three “technical anomalies” for which the airline's engineers were responsible, the Dawn News reported.
Head of the AAIB Air Commodore Usman Ghani submitted the report on Thursday to a bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) after repeated directives by the bench in a petition filed about various incidents involving ATR planes.
A spokesman for the aviation division, senior joint secretary Abdul
Sattar Khokhar, said in a press release that the investigation was carried out under the guidelines provided by the International Civil Aviation Organisation and were aimed at improving the safety of air travel.