How Culture Killed 45 People | Pakistan International Airlines 688

This is the story of pakistan international airlines flight 688. In contemporary times , pakistan international airlines has not had the best reputation. The airline has been banned from operating flights to the US and up until very recently it was banned from flying to the EU and UK. All of this stems from Pakistan's International airlines’s issues with safety and pilot training. But this is nothing new, on the 10th of july 2006 a fokker 27 friendship was on the ground at Multan getting read for a flight to lahore. Also youtube thats just what the plane is called, Please dont demonetize this video, i have no control over the name its dutch. Thats just how they do things over there. But this F27 was old, the type was introduced into PIA back in 1979, which meant that the F27 had been operating with PIA for 27 years. Some of the pilots flying this plane was probably younger than the plane itself. On that day 45 people boarded the small plane expecting a normal flight. The pilots taxied the plane out to runway 36. With the all clear received the pilots pushed the engines to takeoff power. The Fokker roared down the runway, the thunder of the engines filled the cabin of the plane. Then right before the plane hit V1,the speed at which the pilots had to commit to this takeoff the right hand engine started to spool down. In the cockpit the pilots were alerted to the failure of a pump in the right hand engine right after that The cabin got a lot quieter. With the plane now having asymmetric thrust the plane started to head to the right. The captain corrected for this and then asked the first officer if the right hand engine was producing less torque than the left hand engine. The first officer just said affirmative. Despite the engine being inoperative the fokker lifted off and into the skies of Multan pakistan. Now the pilots had the gargantuan task of getting this plane back on the ground. This should be doable as the Fokker corporation had designed the F27 to be able to climb out with one engine out. But Flight 688 seemed to not be going according to plan. The plane was supposed to clim