There were no survivors on the ill-fated flight that had 152 people onboard, including 146 passengers and six crew members.

Airbus A320 of Air Blue’s flight 202 took off from Karachi Airport at 7:42 a.m. with 12 minutes delay carrying 152 people, including crew members, on board.

The flight reached before time at 9:30 a.m. and the pilot approached the control tower of Benazir Bhutto International Airport seeking direction for landing, the report said, adding that due to the rough weather, the control tower asked the pilot to land from the Margalla Hill side. The pilot followed the direction and turned the direction to Margalla Hills that resulted in the disaster.

The flight departed from Karachi airport at 7:50 a.m. for Islamabad. Minutes before the landing, it suddenly lost contact with the control tower of the Islamabad Airport. After a while the plane crashed.The investigation report of the AirBlue plane crash on Margalla Hills revealed that negligence of the pilot as well as technical fault caused the disaster, as the pilot could not judge he had attained a very low altitude.

The investigation team, constituted by the government, completed investigation into the tragedy in April this year, but the government is avoiding to making the investigation report public and hiding its findings for unknown reasons, sources disclosed.

What was the internal situation of the plane and how the passengers reacted before the crash? The recording of the Black Box could not be heard completely, sources said and added that some part of the Black Box could be read by the foreign experts describing hue and cry of the passengers started a few minutes before the crash that later increased at the last moment when the plane took sharp left turn and its wings took vertical position.

“The Black Box recording didn’t depict any sign of terrorism in the plane crash,” sources disclosed, adding that no significant technical fault was found in the Black Box recording or during the course of investigation.

The investigation, conducted primarily, said the pilot might be suffering from accumulated fatigue because he was not given adequate leave.