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only an independent committee can carry out a fair investigation or else ... justice wont be served!!
Other than immediate family members who cares about this? Media will sell the news for few days to cash-in the situation and then they will find something else to sell.
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Inna lillah e wa inna elaihi rajioon
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Nadeem Yousafzai, the head of the CAA was first appointed as head of PIA and was only removed from that position after a strong protest and strikes by the PIA workers... later the govt made him head o CAA and he have managed to crash 2 planes since then...
SO great work GIllani and Zardari, carry on appointing these kind of people and if anyone complains, tell the media and people of Pakistan that it is conspiracy against their govt...
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bhoja got the plane from shaheen = pakistani shaheen = air force = establishment <===== qasoorwar.
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Other than immediate family members who cares about this? Media will sell the news for few days to cash-in the situation and then they will find something else to sell.
sad but true!
i hated the way cameras were in the mourning families faces ... height if insensivity! media need to draw the lines, ethics naam ki kio cheez hi nahi!
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**ISLAMABAD: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Monday began an inspection of all passenger planes operated by private airlines after a near-miss in Karachi that came just two days after a fatal crash in Islamabad.**The checks were ordered on Sunday after a Shaheen Air flight with 178 people on board narrowly avoided disaster when its left rear tyre burst after its landing gear broke as it touched down at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi.
On Friday, a Bhoja Air Boeing 737 came down in fields near Islamabad as it tried to land, killing all 127 people on board – Islamabad’s second major crash in less than two years.
“The CAA launched a comprehensive inspection of airplanes being flown by private airlines, from today,” CAA spokesman Pervez George told AFP.
The CAA has already received a plane from Bhoja Air for so-called “shakedown” checks by engineers, George said.
He refused to give any timeline for completion of the process, saying “it is difficult to say how much time the inspectors will take to examine each plane and all its systems”.
“We have asked all the private airlines to reschedule their domestic and international flights during the inspection so the passengers do not have to suffer,” he added.
CAA begins checks on private airline planes – The Express Tribune
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PESHAWAR: It was clearly a case where the judiciary wishes it did not have to say to the government: “We told you so.” Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan expressed his exasperation at the government’s failure to launch an inquiry into the airworthiness of all public and private aircraft in the country’s domestic aviation sector in the aftermath of the AirBlue tragedy two years ago.
“Our orders were defied, but if they had been followed, dozens of innocent lives could have been saved,” said the chief justice, referring to the recent Bhoja Air Flight B4213 crash, which killed 127 people.
It appears that the chief justice was not actually hearing any cases related to either the AirBlue or the Bhoja Air tragedies, but decided to take up the issue with the government’s lawyers on what was the first working day of the court after the most recent crash.
Justice Khan reminded the government that in the aftermath of the AirBlue crash, the Peshawar High Court had ordered the defence ministry to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the flying capacity of all planes in the domestic aviation sector within 90 days, an order that the government pleaded unconvincingly that it had complied with.
“Not even a single step has so far been taken. What is the government doing?” asked the chief justice. “Those orders were meant to prevent incidents like this [Bhoja Air crash].”
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Nadeem Yousafzai, the head of the CAA was first appointed as head of PIA and was only removed from that position after a strong protest and strikes by the PIA workers... later the govt made him head o CAA and he have managed to crash 2 planes since then...
SO great work GIllani and Zardari, carry on appointing these kind of people and if anyone complains, tell the media and people of Pakistan that it is conspiracy against their govt...
favoritism, corruption ... root of many things!
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here it says the plane was owned by Jet Aviation Sharjah
"The plane was owned by Jet Aviation Sharjah and it was registered in South Africa and had completed 46,933 flying hours.Sources revealed that Bhoja Air had acquired it for $20,000 on a rental basis and it arrived in Pakistan on January 26 this year after the administration had completed the import formalities.
The civil aviation authority of South Africa had given it clearance before it flew to Pakistan. The engineers of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Pakistan had also given a clear report when they examined it in South Africa, according to sources."
Bhoja crash: Passengers were under $5m cover by Russian insurer – The Express Tribune
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More people die in car accidents around the worlds in millions than air crashes (43K in the US alone) each year. While tragic as it is, accidents happen. Its part of life & air travel is still the safest form of modern transportation.
You're missing the basic point here. In a train (highest chance of survival in general), bus or car crash you have atleast some chance of survival. But you have next to no hope of surviving a plane crash. A faulty train does not necessarily result in loss of lives but a faulty plane or an incompetent pilot would almost certainly prove to be disastrous
Hence safety of passengers is of paramount significance during air travel. No aviation authority should be allowing very old planes (and this plane was 28 years old!!) or planes without proper maintenance checks to fly. This is criminal negligence. People shouldn't have to pay with their lives because of the corruption and incompetence of concerned authorities
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it would be funny if it wasnt so sad. how did he even got balls to do that. may be he was going to sell it to bojha airlines owners .
Bhoja Air tragedy: CDA chairman flies to China after being booked – The Express Tribune
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About time…
‘Gory, indecent, vulgar’: PEMRA issues notices to 41 channels – The Express Tribune](http://tribune.com.pk/story/369741/gory-indecent-vulgar-pemra-issues-notices-to-17-channels/)
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inna lilahe wa inna ilahe rajaoon
what a tragedy.....so sad.
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April 20 crash: Bhoja Air announces compensation of Rs500,000](http://tribune.com.pk/story/372406/april-20-crash-bhoja-air-announces-compensation-of-rs500000/)
**KARACHI: ** Bhoja Air on Monday announced it would pay Rs0.5million as initial compensation to each family of the 127 people who died in the April 20 plane crash.
But legal heirs would have to prove their relationship by submitting succession certificates, a document that is obtained from courts after a long and cumbersome process.
The airline said there was no other way to verify legal heirs. “In the case of Air Blue crash, there were a lot of disputes as many people claiming to be relatives came forward for the compensation,” said the airlines spokesman Jasir Abro. A statement issued by the airline said: “ Bhoja Air assures the nation that it is here to stay and will facilitate its future passengers and families of the victims on the ill-fated Flight B4213 of April 20, 2012 in every possible way.”
April 20 crash: Bhoja Air announces compensation of Rs500,000 – The Express Tribune
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i've heard it on the news that Bhoja Airlines has been completely shut down and that it's license to fly has been revoked...so effectively, there is NO Bhoja Airlines anymore.
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unfortunetly, its not suspended for good! as soon as they will get more aircrafts for domestic flights, it will be resumed!
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unfortunetly, its not suspended for good! as soon as they will get more aircrafts for domestic flights, it will be resumed!
no, i don't think so...i think their license to operate has been revoked!
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Inna Lillahi wa inna ilahi rajeoon
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CAA suspends Bhoja Air operations
KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday suspended flights of a private airline, a little over a month after one of its passenger planes crashed near Islamabad,killing all 127 people on board.
Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority said the airline had been reduced to just one aircraft, below the minimum requirement, after one of its remaining two planes developed a fault. The defence ministry ordered a halt to operations.
“Bhoja Air’s operations have been suspended until it acquires at least three aircraft for domestic operations,” CAA spokesman Pervez George told AFP.
Nobody from the airline was immediately available to comment.
A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 came down in fields near Islamabad on April 20 killing all 127 people on board.
In July 2010 an Airbus jet operated by Airblue crashed into the Margalla hills overlooking Islamabad while coming in to land after a flight from Karachi, killing 152 people in the worst air disaster ever on Pakistani soil.
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oh, i’m sorry. i stand corrected. i actually heard on Samaa TV News this morning. they may very well have gotten incorrect info. thanx 