Investigators in their preliminary report on the PK-8303 crash that claimed the lives of 97 people held the pilot of the ill-fated Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane and air traffic controller responsible for the incident.
Ghulam Sarwar Khan, while speaking on the floor of the Senate, vowed that a fair and transparent investigation will be held for getting the facts behind the PIA plane crash incident in Karachi.
It is pertinent to mention here that an aircraft investigative team of Pakistan left the country along with Airbus experts after they concluded the probe into the plane crash incident.
The teams of PIA, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and construction experts have taken part in the operation to pull out remaining parts of the crashed Airbus 320 aircraft from the debris of the building.
The experts of Civil Aviation Authority, PIA and technical experts will make another attempt to pull out the remaining parts of the ill-fated aircraft.
PIA plane crash investigations have hit another milestone after french experts submitted decoded blackbox data of the ill-fated flight PK-8303 to Pakistan.
A PIA aircraft with more than 90 passengers and eight crew members on board crashed at Model Colony, a residential area near Jinnah International Airport, on May 22, leaving all people on board dead except two survivors.
The experts of French BEA have successfully downloaded data of cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) of the crash PIA PK-8303 plane.
The ATC had warned the captain twice and instructed to turn the plane to 180 degrees besides maintaining the required altitude, however, the instructions were completely neglected by the pilot, said the report.
Sources closer to the investigators told ARY News that the delay in pulling out the aircraft's engine was made as the building was present in dilapidated condition.