Bilawal rejects govt's report into PIA plane crash.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Wednesday while rejecting the government's report into Pakistan International Airline's plane crash in Karachi and demanded an independent probe into the issue.

The PPP chairman took to the microblogging website twitter and said that Prime Minister Imran Khan used to say that railway minister should be sacked if there's train crash and if there's a plane crash aviation minister should be sacked.

He said that the prime minister now blames the pilot and air traffic control for plane crash.

Bilawal went on to say that the process of making scapegoats by blaming the victims of the accident should be stopped.

'We want an independent investigation into PIA plane crash,' he added.

Earlier today, Federal Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Wednesday said that the pilots of a PIA airliner that crashed last month, killing 97, were distracted and preoccupied as they talked about the coronavirus pandemic while preparing for an initial failed landing bid.

The Airbus A320 of national carrier Pakistan International Airlines crashed on May 22 in the southern city of Karachi, killing all but two of those aboard as it came down a kilometre (0.6 mile) short of the runway on its second attempt.

The aircraft had landed on its engines on the first attempt, before taking off again, the minister, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, told parliament as he presented an initial report on the disaster.

The flight data recorder showed the landing gear was lowered at 10 nautical miles, Khan said, but then raised again 5 nautical miles from the runway, which he described as "beyond comprehension".

The aircraft was "100 percent fit to fly" and there was no technical fault, he said, but added that the pilots were not "focused" because...