{"id":19692,"date":"2020-06-25T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/pakistan-plane-crashed-after-pilots-distracted-by-coronavirus-fears"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T00:16:00","slug":"pakistan-plane-crashed-after-pilots-distracted-by-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19692","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan plane crashed after pilots distracted by coronavirus fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary report finds \u2018human error\u2019 \u2013 including failing to put the wheels down \u2013 to blame for crash that killed 98 people in Karachi<\/p>\n<p>The pilots of a plane that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/22\/pakistan-passenger-plane-crashes-near-karachi\"> crashed last month in Pakistan<\/a>, killing 98 people, were pre-occupied by the coronavirus crisis and tried to land with the aircraft\u2019s wheels still up, according to initial official reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crashed into a crowded residential area on 22 May after both engines failed as it approached Karachi airport for a second landing attempt, killing all but two people on board, and a child on the ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/pakistan-plane-crashed-after-pilots-distracted-by-coronavirus-fears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary report finds \u2018human error\u2019 \u2013 including failing to put the wheels down \u2013 to blame for crash that killed 98 people in KarachiThe pilots of a plane that crashed last month in Pakistan, killing 98 people, were pre-occupied by the coronavirus cr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,931,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-plane-crashes","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19693,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions\/19693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}