Airblue down near Islamabad

[aterpster]

Thunderbug:

7 miles is way too far downwind. If this is a accident whilst circling it bears so much similarity with the Air China B767 crash at Pusan, Korea

There are similarities, yet great differences. In the current accident the protected airspace was a generous PANS-OPS radius of 5.2 nm. At Pusan, the captain thought it was PANS-OPS, but it was tiny/little, politically motivated U.S. TERPs. The Chinese captain at Pusan got had in my view.