Foreign experts sought for K2 Airways plane crash sea hunt

Islamabad will bring in overseas specialists for a deep-sea hunt for the cargo jet’s black box and wreckage near Ormara, with the airline due to share half the recovery bill.

Pakistan is contacting foreign experts for a deep-sea search after the K2 Airways plane crash near Ormara.

The operation aims to recover the black box and locate wreckage; the company will pay 50% of those costs.

Black box signals stopped about a month after the July 7 crash on a Sharjah–Karachi cargo flight.

The Bureau of Aircraft Safety Investigation is still probing the cause; the Pakistan Navy had earlier searched underwater.

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