Pakistan is contacting foreign experts to support a deep-sea search after the K2 Airways plane crash, seeking help to recover the aircraft’s black box and find wreckage in waters near Ormara. The government has briefed the cargo operator’s owners on the planned operation, and the company will cover 50 per cent of the cost of retrieving the flight recorder and locating the debris.
Deep-sea recovery and cost sharing
Officials want international expertise for the recovery work in the deep sea. Authorities are also weighing help from specialist firms abroad to find the engines, the flight recorder (the black box that stores cockpit and flight data), and the crew members still sought underwater.
The Pakistan Navy had already used specialised gear to try to pinpoint the black box below the surface. Signals from that recorder stopped about a month after the aircraft went down, which has made the underwater hunt more difficult and helps explain the turn to overseas support.
What investigators have done so far
The Bureau of Aircraft Safety Investigation—Pakistan’s air-accident probe body—is continuing its inquiry. Investigators have flown over the sea near Ormara to assess the crash area and studied how the jet entered the water from a significant altitude while returning from Sharjah to Karachi.
They have finished an initial review of the aircraft’s available records and examined recovered wreckage, including items found in the bag of crew member engineer Hamid. The cause of the accident has not been established; the probe remains open.
Timeline: what has happened so far
- July 7: The cargo aircraft crashed into the sea near Ormara while returning from Sharjah to Karachi and was destroyed.
- About one month after the crash: Signals from the black box stopped.
- Since the crash: The Pakistan Navy used specialised equipment in an underwater search for the recorder.
- Ongoing: Aerial assessment near Ormara, review of records and recovered wreckage, and plans for a deep-sea operation with foreign expertise; the company informed it will bear half the recovery costs.
Aasan alfaaz mein
K2 Airways ka cargo plane 7 July ko Ormara ke paas samandar mein gir gaya tha. Ab Pakistan gehre samandar mein black box aur tukray dhoondne ke liye bahar ke mahireen se madad maang raha hai. Company is talaash ka aadha kharcha uthayegi. Hadse ki wajah abhi samne nahi aayi; tahqiqat jari hain.
