No news of casualties yet, but the descriptions do not sound good. 🙁
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/us-pakistan-aircraft-crash-idUSBRE83J0XG20120420
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd April 2012 at 14:34
From ASN:
AIRCRAFT HISTORY
G-BKYI – Boeing (13 DEC 1984) first flight
G-BKYI – British Airways (07 JAN 1985) delivered
ZS-OLB – Comair (06 JUN 1999) delivered
ZS-OLB – Comair (JAN 2011) withdrawn from use and stored at Johannesburg (JNB)
AP-BKC – Bhoja Airlines (FEB 2012) bought
By: garryrussell - 22nd April 2012 at 14:08
The aircraft was performing the inaugural flight on that route.
By: Arabella-Cox - 22nd April 2012 at 13:36
This was the plane when it used to be with Comair (BA franchise) in South Africa :
By: Newforest - 21st April 2012 at 08:46
Full description of crash. The airline had only resumed flying last month.
By: Newforest - 20th April 2012 at 21:59
Some confusion concerning which aircraft was involved. May have been AP-BKD ex G-BGDD.
Whichever, the aircraft was over thirty years old which doesn’t lessen the tragedy to those involved.
By: garryrussell - 20th April 2012 at 20:49
Very tragic…my thoughts to those concerned
Confirmed a 737, in fact 737-236 AP-BKC, originally G-BKYI with British Airways
By: Bmused55 - 20th April 2012 at 20:17
Must have been pretty high speed, there’s nothing left!
By: Newforest - 20th April 2012 at 17:14
The BBC saying no sign of survivors. A 737 of Bhoja Air crashed ten kilometers from the runway.
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