Originally Posted by Meekal
How on earth would I know what this captain was doing and whether he had his 'own' procedure -- or something that PIA pilot's have up their sleeve!? You 'suggest' you fly/flew for PIA and operated into Islambad so as a 'PIA pilot' I guess there is a reasonable chance you might know of such?
There is nothing mysterious about circling to 12 after a letdown on 30. Capt. Choudhry must have done it himself many times and since we run our 747-200/300 on the domestic sector as well (Karachi-Lahore, Karachi-Islamabad, and return), he would have had all that extra 'practice' as it were. Who mentioned 'mysterious'? It is not the circling approach I am querying, is it? I would have thought that should have been pretty clear by now
Regarding crash site location, you may wish to rewind to macacha #81 and PJ2 #124 to get an idea of where it is. On Google earth you can pick up the two 'roads' in PJ's crash site simulation.