PIA 661 : Cauchemar à Islamabad

25 Dec 2022 · 37 min
37:19

French-language monologue (YouTube) recounting the December 7, 2016 crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight PIA 661 — an ATR 42 turboprop that departed Chitral for Islamabad. The speaker describes the hazardous mountainous route, then details three latent maintenance-related defects on the left (No.1) Pratt & Whitney turboprop: (1) a turbine disk that had exceeded the manufacturer's 10,000‑hour service recommendation and contained micro-cracks (reused despite the limit), (2) a damaged overspeed governor previously improperly reinstalled, and (3) a contaminated oil transfer line clogged with debris. In-flight the left engine exhibited vibration and then failure; the crew attempted to feather the propeller but the propeller went into severe overspeed (~120% vs a normal limit ≈102%), producing enormous drag. Crews fought to maintain altitude over mountainous terrain instead of accepting a controlled descent; after prolonged struggle the airplane stalled and entered a final descent, impacting terrain with 47 occupants killed. Wreckage recovery was difficult; the flight data/voice recorders were sent to France for analysis and investigation assistance was provided by foreign investigators. The video frames the accident as a maintenance-cascade failure compounded by operational decisions and challenging terrain.

Questions this video answers

7 December 2016

Chitral to Islamabad

ATR 42 (turboprop regional transport)

Pratt & Whitney

47 occupants (47 morts)

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