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April 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
It hit the ground next to the village of Hussainabad at 6.40pm, four miles
short of the airport runway, three minutes after losing contact with air
traffic controllers, he told a press conference in Islamabad.
Earlier leaks of the civil aviation authority’s initial investigation,
submitted to the interior ministry, reported the pilot had issued a mayday
call after a fire in one of its fuel tanks caused him to lose control of the
aircraft.
The plane had accelerated to 300 miles per hour and exploded at 1,500 feet,
the leaked findings said.
Given the violent storm lashing Islamabad during the accident, some experts
have speculated that “wind shear” – sudden changes in wind that
can lift or smash an aircraft into the ground during landing – may have been
a factor.
Mr Yousafzai said it was “too early to rule out any cause” for the crash.
Tyre marks and landing gear found in tact in the wheat fields by the village
indicated the plane had “landed, bounced into the air and disintegrated”,
suggesting the pilots had attempted an emergency landing, he said.
At the crash site on Friday night, a Sunday Telegraph reporter saw one set of
landing gear and some small parts of the plane’s machinery in a field on the
southern periphery of Hussainabad. Most debris, including sections of the
plane’s fuselage and the other sets of landing gear, were found in the
fields on the northern side of the village.
Residents, who were inside their homes having dinner at the time of the
accident, said they had seen a flash of light, followed by an explosion, and
the sound of debris and bodies landing.
A former navy pilot, Arshad Mehmood, told Pakistan cable news channels he had
watched the plane stall and fall rapidly.
Yousaf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, on Saturday ordered a judicial
investigation into the accident.
Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister, promised a sweeping criminal
investigation into the accident.
“The causes will be investigated, whether it was any fault in the
aircraft, it was lightning, the bad weather or any other factor that caused
the loss of precious lives,” he said.
He said the plane’s black box has been recovered and would be sent abroad for
its contents to be decoded. Pakistani investigators would also travel to
South Africa, where the 32-year-old plane had last undergone safety checks
into its flightworthiness.
“If the plane was that old, why was it bought?” said Mr Malik.
He said investigators would probe the owner of Bhoja Airlines, Farooq Bhoja,
and all civil aviation officials who cleared the flight for take-off from
Karachi.
Mr Bhoja has been banned from leaving the country and placed in protective
custody.
Rescue workers have recovered the remains of all 127 passengers and crew, and
have identified all but 12 of them. Relatives have been asked to give DNA
samples to aid identification.
Post mortem examinations have been carried out on the victims, and their
bodies handed over to relatives in Islamabad and Karachi so they could be
buried quickly, as per the Muslim custom.
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