Pakistan plane crash

[Roadrunner23]

Just come in on Sky News

http://news.sky.com/home/article/16212839

[onyx39]

Into a built up area too

[Eric Mc]

Bhoja Air.

They seem to operate a couple of fairly ancient 737-200s.

Looking at wiki, they only recommenced operatiomns in March this year after a gap of 12 years.

Not a good start.

[Roop]

As if anyone would fly on a plane run by "Bodger" airlines...!

Seriously though, not good news.

[Eric Mc]

Aircraft is AP-BKD - a Boeing 737-236 first flown in February 1980 - so 32 years old.

With a Boeing customer number of 36, this shows it was originally built for British Airways.
A quick search reveals this to be be the former BA 737 G-BGDD.

I am pretty sure that some PHers may well have flown on this aircraft.

Looking back at my old plane spotter logs, I noted this aircraft at Dublin on 1 June 1985.

[onyx39]

Data from Airfleets.net
Delivery date Airline Registration Remark
23/02/1980 British Airways G-BGDD
21/04/1995 Transavia Airlines PH-TSE
13/09/1995 Comair ZS-NNG Stored 01/2011
10/02/2012 Bhoja Air AP-BKD 20/04/12 Crashed Islamabad

[stain]

Eric Mc said:

Aircraft is AP-BKD - a Boeing 737-236 first flown in February 1980 - so 32 years old.

With a Boeing customer number of 36, this shows it was originally built for British Airways.
A quick search reveals this to be be the former BA 737 G-BGDD.

I am pretty sure that some PHers may well have flown on this aircraft.

Looking back at my old plane spotter logs, I noted this aircraft at Dublin on 1 June 1985.

I used to maintain it at BA. They were quite good kites then but did take a lot of maintaining.

[Eric Mc]

I'm sure BA took very good care of it. God knows how well it's been looked after in the 17 years since they sold it though.

My hunch is that this will turn out to be a weather related and piloting standards related accident.

[stain]

Eric Mc said:

I'm sure BA took very good care of it. God knows how well it's been looked after in the 17 years since they sold it though.

My hunch is that this will turn out to be a weather related and piloting standards related accident.

Quite likely although I can't imagine that it has been looked after very well since then. Some of the old 732s were sold very cheaply to operators in these emerging 3rd world countries.

It's quite a strange feeling to see something you worked on in pieces with so many fatalities.

[Eric Mc]

Although, it has to be said, BA's last serious accident with fatalities was with one of these 737-236s (G-BGJL at Manchester in 1985).

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Eric Mc said:

Although, it has to be said, BA's last serious accident with fatalities was with one of these 737-236s (G-BGJL at Manchester in 1985).

G-BGJI came pretty close. Worked on that one too .......

[Eric Mc]

What happened there?

Another combuster can incident?

[stain]

No. Uncommaned rudder movement on a test flight following a maintenance input.

[Eric Mc]

Ah - like what happened to a couple of US 737s - although they were 300/400 variants.

[stain]

Yes there was a big investigation on JI by the CAA and Boeing. They took it up again with test pilots to try and get it to do it again! eeeek!