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They didn't stand a chance - Bhoja flight 213
On evening of April 20th 2012, 121 passengers and 6 crew boarded on Boeing 737 at Karachi in Pakistan. Flight 213 was being operated Bhoja Air and being the airline inaugural for Karachi to Islamabad, it was expected to take 2 hours. Over Islamabad, storms were brewing, creating conditions which the 2 pilots were not remotely trained to deal with. These pilots were so poorly trained that they hadn't even be taught how to fly this particular aircraft, a Boeing 737 200. All of their training and the manual on board were from an older version of the plane. That version had a much less sophisticated autopilot and other less advanced systems. They just knew that this plane was a bit more high tech but they weren't trained on the details of this newer technology. So they overestimated the aircraft's capabilities. The pilots were 58 years old captain Noorullah Khan Afridi and 53 years old Javaid Malik, the first officer. The captain was a former Air Force pilot with over 10 000 hours of flying experience. He had been flying 737 for several years with a different airline before switching to Bhoja earlier that year. The first officer was also a former Air Force pilot althought he was less experienced with 3 000 hours of flying experience. He worked for the same airline as the captain has worked previously and followed him over Bhoj air once he switched. The 2 pilots were friends and had been paired together for more than half of the flights they had flown with the new airline so far. The captain would make a serie of bad decisions on their approach to Islamabad. Despite the pilots overall experience, they each had only 80 hours on this specific version of the 737 200. The captain previously began training on a more modern version of the 737 at his last airline, but his training was discontinude after his supervisors deemed him unable to operate the automated fligth deck in a safe and efficient manner.
At first, the plane followed its route normally. But the aircraft they were flying on shouldn't have been allowed to carry passengers. That's because as far as Pakistan's civil aviation authority was concerned, Bhoja didn't have any advanced version of the 737. 200. They thought this fleet consisted solely of the base model 737. Indeed, Bhoja airline pilots training program reflected this. Pilots were only trained to fly the base model 737 200 and not the advanced version. It wasn't that the civil aviation authority didn't know this. In fact, they allowed Bhoja to operate this particular plane even though they hadn't granted its certificate of airworthiness to carry passengers. It also would later be claimed that senior officials at the airline had engaged with deals with the civil aviation authority, aka the CAA, to allow the airline to operate in the first place. It was about corruption. The Swiss Cheese model by psychologist James Pearson is often used to explain aircraft accidents. The diea goes that accidents when layers of safety represented here by the cheese slices have holes in them, which on some unfortunate occasions line up in such aa way as to allow an accident to happen. Naturally, the way to prevent similar accidents in the future is to add more layers of safety and to close up some of the holes. At the Bhoja company, the holes were numerous and big. The burreacrats and businessmen who arranged the state of affairs were not on the board of flight 213. Pilots could see on their radar that powerful storms were building in front of them.The storm at Islamabad was significant, with thunder and lightning, heavy rain and strong winds. The closer they got, the more the pilots saw how intense it was. Since the weather at their first alternate airport, at Lahore, was bad, the first officer suggested to check the weather on Pechawar, their second alternate airport. The captian dismissed this idea. Pilots are supposed to trust their instruments and not fate.
The first officer didn't question the captain who was like a mentor for him. The flight continud descending into the murky weather surroudning Islamabad. Ahead of the plane, the pilots could see what is known as a squall line, a serie of storms stretching across a long distance. One the other side of the squall line, lay the airport.
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On evening of April 20th 2012, 121 passengers and 6 crew boarded on Boeing 737 at Karachi in Pakistan. Flight 213 was being operated Bhoja Air and being the airline inaugural for Karachi to Islamabad, it was expected to take 2 hours. Over Islamabad, storms were brewing, creating conditions which the 2 pilots were not remotely trained to deal with. These pilots were so poorly trained that they hadn't even be taught how to fly this particular aircraft, a Boeing 737 200. All of their training and the manual on board were from an older version of the plane. That version had a much less sophisticated autopilot and other less advanced systems. They just knew that this plane was a bit more high tech but they weren't trained on the details of this newer technology. So they overestimated the aircraft's capabilities. The pilots were 58 years old captain Noorullah Khan Afridi and 53 years old Javaid Malik, the first officer. The captain was a former Air Force pilot with over 10 000 hours of flying experience. He had been flying 737 for several years with a different airline before switching to Bhoja earlier that year. The first officer was also a former Air Force pilot althought he was less experienced with 3 000 hours of flying experience. He worked for the same airline as the captain has worked previously and followed him over Bhoj air once he switched. The 2 pilots were friends and had been paired together for more than half of the flights they had flown with the new airline so far. The captain would make a serie of bad decisions on their approach to Islamabad. Despite the pilots overall experience, they each had only 80 hours on this specific version of the 737 200. The captain previously began training on a more modern version of the 737 at his last airline, but his training was discontinude after his supervisors deemed him unable to operate the automated fligth deck in a safe and efficient manner.
At first, the plane followed its route normally. But the aircraft they were flying on shouldn't have been allowed to carry passengers. That's because as far as Pakistan's civil aviation authority was concerned, Bhoja didn't have any advanced version of the 737. 200. They thought this fleet consisted solely of the base model 737. Indeed, Bhoja airline pilots training program reflected this. Pilots were only trained to fly the base model 737 200 and not the advanced version. It wasn't that the civil aviation authority didn't know this. In fact, they allowed Bhoja to operate this particular plane even though they hadn't granted its certificate of airworthiness to carry passengers. It also would later be claimed that senior officials at the airline had engaged with deals with the civil aviation authority, aka the CAA, to allow the airline to operate in the first place. It was about corruption. The Swiss Cheese model by psychologist James Pearson is often used to explain aircraft accidents. The diea goes that accidents when layers of safety represented here by the cheese slices have holes in them, which on some unfortunate occasions line up in such aa way as to allow an accident to happen. Naturally, the way to prevent similar accidents in the future is to add more layers of safety and to close up some of the holes. At the Bhoja company, the holes were numerous and big. The burreacrats and businessmen who arranged the state of affairs were not on the board of flight 213. Pilots could see on their radar that powerful storms were building in front of them.The storm at Islamabad was significant, with thunder and lightning, heavy rain and strong winds. The closer they got, the more the pilots saw how intense it was. Since the weather at their first alternate airport, at Lahore, was bad, the first officer suggested to check the weather on Pechawar, their second alternate airport. The captian dismissed this idea. Pilots are supposed to trust their instruments and not fate.
The first officer didn't question the captain who was like a mentor for him. The flight continud descending into the murky weather surroudning Islamabad. Ahead of the plane, the pilots could see what is known as a squall line, a serie of storms stretching across a long distance. One the other side of the squall line, lay the airport.
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