PIA Flight 705

Infobox Airliner accident|name=PIA Flight PK 705

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Date=May 20, 1965
Type=Crashed during approach, excessive descent
Site=Cairo International Airport, Egypt
Origin=Quaid-e-Azam International Airport
Last stopover=Dhahran International Airport
Destination=Cairo International Airport
Fatalities= 119
Injuries= 6
Aircraft Type= Boeing 720 – 040 B
Operator= Pakistan International Airlines
Tail Number=AP - AMH
Passengers=112
Crew=13
Survivors = 6

Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK 705 was a Boeing 720 – 040 B that crashed while descending to land on Runway 34 at Cairo International Airport on May 20, 1965 resulting in 119 fatalities.

Details

Flight 705 departed Dhahran International Airport at 21:22 GMT for Cairo. The flight was uneventful and at 23:40 GMT it was cleared for a left-hand approach circuit for Runway 34. At 23:45 the crew reported turning on finals. The Boeing 720 kept descending and nothing more was heard from the flight until the aircraft struck the ground short of the runway, in a slight left-bank attitude with its undercarriage up and flaps set at 20 degrees.

Result

Controlled flight into terrain - Level ground

Probable cause

"The aircraft did not maintain the adequate height for the circuit and continued to descend until it contacted the ground. The reason for that abnormal continuation of descent is unknown."

The aircraft crashed during approach. The plane descended during the approach at triple the normal rate. The aircraft exceeded the recommended descent rate during the final stages of landing. Landing Gear was down and locked, however flaps and slats had not been deployed, and wing was in level flight/cruise configuration.

=Sources=
*ICAO Circular 88-AN/74 (113-117)
*Accident Description: Crashed during approach, excessive descent.

urvivors

*Mr. Jalal Al-Karimi (Dhahran Station Manager – Pakistan International Airlines)
*Mr. M Salahuddin Siddiqi (Press Officer – PIA)
*Mr. Amanullah Khandwalla (Aerotravels)
*Mr. Shaukat Mecklai (Universal Express)
*Mr. Arif Raza (son of the owner of Hostelleirie de France)
*Mr. Zahoor (Globe)

Victims

PIA personnel

*Captain Ali Akhtar Khan (Flight Commander)
*Captain Jauhar (Co-pilot)
*Khalid Zia Lodhi (Chief Navigation Officer)
*Jimmy Mirza (Commercial & Marketing Director – PIA)
*Momi Gul Durrani

Passengers

*Mr. Abdul Aziz

*Mr. Abdul

*Mr. Abdul Hamid
*Mr. Abdul Hannan

*Mr. Abdul Karim
*Mr. Abdul Kashim

*Mr. Abdul Qadir

*Mr. Abdul Rozak
*Master Abdul Sattar (Child)
*Mst. Fatima Bibi (Child)

*Mrs. Hawjaib Hyder
*Miss Hawjaib Yasmin (Infant)
*Mr. Abdul Sohid
*Mr. Abdus Samad

*Mr. Abdul Waris

*Mr. Abdul Miah

*Mr. A I Sheikh
*Mr. Akhtar Javed Alavi
*Mr. Ali Wasir
*Mr. A S Niazi
*Mr. Aziz Malik
*Mr. Bashir Ahmed Lakhani
*Mrs. Banoo Shaukat Mecklai
*Ms. Cindy Salandha
*Mr. Dennis E Lobo
*Mr. Donald Love
*Mr. Dost Mohammad

*Miss Elizabeth Clare Howard
*Mr. Lewis Page Howard
*Mrs. Marian Teeters Howard

*Ms. Dr. Eva Vodikova
*Mr. Feroz Khan
*Mrs. F Chowdhry
*Mr. Golam Jilani Joarder
*Mrs. Gulzar Begum
*Mr. Gerry Roasrio
*Wing Commander M Shamim Khan
*Mr. Hafiz Mohammad
*Mr. Hussain El Mani
*Mr. Hussein Aly Chehata
*Mrs. Hussein Aly Chehata
*Miss Hutoki Panthakey
*Mr. I A Butt
*Mr. Intaj Ali
*Mr. Irfan Ali
*Mr. Ishaq Ibrahim El-Massoui
*Mrs. Jana Hai
*Mr. Jaston Layyoub
*Mr. Kalay Mia
*Mr. Karl
*Mr. L A Tahir
*Mr. Madjid Al-Makky
*Mr. M A Rashid
*Mr. Mahfoozul Haq Bhuiyan
*Miss Mahmooda Naimatullah Baig
*Mr. Malik Abdul Hussain
*Dr. Malick Asdar Ali
*Mr. Mansoor Laljee
*Mr. Mohammed Afzal Johri
*Mr. Mohamed El-Hasan
*Mr. Mohammad Masood Khan
*Mr. Mohammad Bajjawal
*Mr. Mohammad
*Mr. Mohammad Siddique
*Mr. Mohammad Shafiq
*Mrs. Danna Danha
*Mr. Mumtaz Mian
*Mr. G H Terry
*Mr. M E Terry
*Mr. M Ismail
*Mr. Zulfiqar Khan
*Mr. Monuhur Mia
*Mr. Mostafauddin
*Mr. M Yasefa
*Miss Naseema Sarwar
*Mr. Osman Ahmed Khalfalla
*Miss Razia Bibi
*Mr. Rolf Evensen
*Mr. S A Tasdiq
*Mr. S B Agha
*Mrs. Shamima Amin
*Mr. Sirajuddin
*Mr. S M Laekawall
*Mr. Shofiullah
*Mrs. Syeda Saleema Begum
*Mr. Syed Shams Yousseff
*Mr. Toyeb Ali
*Mr. Victor

*Mr. Chang Hsuesh-Li
*Mr. Li Yu-Feng
*Mr. Hsu Fu-Ken
*Mr. Huang Kang
*Mr. Wu Fu-Peng
*Mr. Yang Zong-Hai
*Mr. Yu May-Hang

The twenty two journalists on board who were killed in the disaster included:

*Major General Mian Hayauddin (Chairman – National Press Trust)
*Mr. A K Qureishi (Administrator – Associated Press of Pakistan)
*Mr. Fariduddin Ahmad (Pakistan Observer)
*Mr. Akhtaruzzaman (Paigham)
*Mr. Aleemullah (Leader)
*Mr. Irfan Chughtai (Chief Reporter Nawa-i-Waqt)
*Mr. T D D’sylva (Pakistan Times)
*Mr. Sibte Farooq Faridi (Morning News)
*Mr. S M Hannan (Morning News)
*Mr. Hamid Hashmi (Daily Imroze)
*Mr. Muzammil Huq (Sainik Pakistan)
*Mr. Abul Saleh Islahi (Editor Daily Mashriq)
*Mr. M B Khalid (Business Recorder)
*Mr. Yaqub Khan (Aero News)
*Mr. Nasir Mahmood (Daily Jang)
*Mr. Jaffar Mansoor (Hurriyat)
*Mr. S M Mobin (Unity)
*Mr. Shah Mumtaz (PPA)
*Mr. Ahmadur Rehman (Ittefaq)
*Mr. Saghiruddin (Dawn)
*Mr. Yasin Tareen (Business Post)
*Mr. Mumtaz Tariq (Flyer)

Airframe Technical Data

*Type: Boeing 720 – 040 B
*Operator: Pakistan International Airlines – PIA
*Registration: AP – AMH
*C/n / msn: 18379/321
*Manufactured: 1962
*Engines: 4 x Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B
*First flight: 1962
*Delivery date: October 19, 1962

tatistics

*4th loss of a Boeing 720
*The worst accident involving a Boeing 720 (at the time)
*The worst accident involving a Boeing 720 (currently)
*The worst accident in Egypt (at the time)
*2nd worst accident in Egypt (currently)

ee also

* Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
* Air safety

External links

* [http://www.pakistaniaviation.com/ Pakistani Aviation website]
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650520-0&lang=en Aviation Safety Database]
* [http://www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/view_details.cgi?date=05201965&reg=AP-AMH&airline=Pakistan+International+Airlines Air Disaster Database]
* [http://www.historyofpia.com/accidents2.htm History of PIA]
* [http://www.dawn.com/2000/08/01/op.htm#2 DAWN August 2000 Article by Omar Kureishi]
* [http://www.khalidhasan.net/fridaytimes/2002-08-09.htm Friday Times August 2002 Article by Khalid Hasan]
* [http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/14/op.htm DAWN January 2003 Article by Omar Kureishi]
* [http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/030202/dmag5.htm DAWN Magazine February 2003 Article by Omar Kureishi]
* [http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/030330/dmag5.htm DAWN Magazine March 2003 Article by Omar Kureishi]