PIA aircraft skids at Panjgur airport

A tyre of the plane reportedly burst during landing

An aircraft of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) skidded off the runway at the Panjgur airport on Saturday. Everybody onboard remained unhurt.

A tyre of the plane, flying from Karachi to Panjgur, burst during landing. The pilot of PIA’s flight PK-517, however, remained in control of the aircraft and successfully brought it to a halt near the runway, according to sources.



A video clip, showing passengers disembarking from the aircraft through emergency stairs, went viral on the social media.

Such incidents involving the national flag carrier are not uncommon. In March 2013, tyres of a PIA plane burst while the aircraft made an emergency landing in Quetta. All passengers on board remained unharmed.



In February 2012, a Karachi-Quetta-Islamabad flight narrowly escaped disaster when the aircraft’s tyres burst while landing. According to a PIA official, the flight PK-352 met the accident while landing at the Quetta airport.

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