Airblue Flight 202

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Airblue Flight 202 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Karachi to Islamabad. On 28 July 2010, the Airbus A321 jet airliner serving the flight crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, while approaching Benazir Bhutto International Airport. All 146 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed. The crash is the deadliest air accident to occur in Pakistan to date and the first fatal crash involving an Airbus A321. Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority concluded that the crash of the two-hour flight was caused by the captain's incorrect flight-control input. Captain Pervez-Iqbal Chaudhry had spent the first hour of the flight belittling first officer Muntajib-ud-Din Ahmed who was subsequently reluctant to challenge the captain's multiple piloting mistakes and effectively ceased any meaningful crew resource management. Chaudhry also ignored multiple automated systems warning of the impending crash.

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