Pakistan has reached out to international experts to assist in recovering the flight data recorder and locating the wreckage of a K2 Airways cargo aircraft that crashed into the Arabian Sea near Ormara on July 7, killing all five crew members aboard.
The aircraft went down while returning from Sharjah to Karachi. The Bureau of Aircraft Safety Investigation is leading the inquiry, and the cause of the crash has not been determined.
Signals from the black box went silent approximately one month after the crash. The Pakistan Navy had previously used specialized underwater equipment to locate the recorder’s position in deep water, but physical recovery has not yet been completed. Authorities are now evaluating international specialist companies to physically retrieve the flight recorder, locate the aircraft’s engines, and search for the remaining crew members.
The Pakistani government has informed K2 Airways’ ownership of the planned deep-sea operation. Under the current arrangement, the carrier will cover 50 percent of the recovery costs.
On the investigation side, the BASI team has conducted aerial surveys of the sea area near Ormara, completed an initial review of available aircraft records, and examined recovered wreckage. Investigators also reviewed items found in the bag of crew member engineer Hamid. The source of the crash — described in investigator accounts as occurring from a significant altitude during the return leg — remains under active investigation.
