The flight, PK-2226, had flown in from Jeddah and was en route to Sialkot when it was diverted to Lahore at 9:30am due to bad weather.
A tyre of the aircraft burst when it was landing, which caused the engine to hit the runway. The PIA management grounded the plan immediately after it landed.
Initial reports had stated that a number of passengers had been injured during the landing, but the PIA aviation manager rejected the reports and said that no pilgrim was hurt.
Passengers later departed for Sialkot via flight PK-302, which arrived from Karachi around 12:30pm.
The PIA management also denied that the plane had been grounded after the emergency landing. The aviation manager said that the flight came from Jeddah and according to aviation rules, the airline was bound to arrange another flight for pilgrims.
They denied that the aircraft was grounded, saying that it would soon be utilised for normal flight operations.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2011.
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This ain't ordinary. This must be the breaking news for today on all channels and newspapers and e-papers. Pilot is claiming he was given wrong information. CAA says they provided correct information and it's pilot's fault. Given the corruption based induction into PIA and CAA, we must resolve the issue and point out the real culprit to avoid such incompetency to happen again.
The amount of mis-information here is amazing.
The 747s are not past their life cycles or hours and certainly not the RR-engined -300 we purchased from Cathay Pacific. They are NOT banned from Europe. The older 747s have been retired and sold for scrap.
The 777 is ideally suited to flying European sectors. Also more fuel-efficient.
The 747-200/300 is still flown widely around the world.
This emergency landing seems like a flakey story. The 747 has EIGHTEEN-WHEELS. If one should deflate on landing, it is not an emergency. Just keep it straight by rudder input and the nose-wheel steering. A wing would certainly NOT as a consequence of a single tyre failure contact the runway and there is no question of anyone being hurt. Passengers would not even notice it.
These 747s are done with their flight life and are already banned by europe. This PIA management should be put on this 747 and dumped into the Arabian sea. They put 100s at risk everytime a PIA aircraft flies.
@Ovais Jafar:
The are using the Jumbo's for Hajj. They can easily re-configure them to seat 500 people.
You are getting confused because ET has NO aviation knowledge and has posted a picture of a 777 above. They post any picture of PIA they want even if it is irrelevant to the story.
One never knows the truth about anything in Pakistan leave alone this story.
The Jumbo has SIXTEEN wheels! A single tyre blow-out (IF it happened) is probably likely to cause only a MINOR problem with directional control using the rudder and the nose-wheel steering "tiller". No big deal. An engine is most UNLIKELY to hit the runway unless the plane was banked on touch-down which is unlikely unless it was hit with a wind-shear.
What ?!?! Earlier in September, 2 PIA planes met with engine failures on "Saturday" ?!!? Your article has confused me more than if you had not said anything at all.
I'm still trying to ascertain if they somehow managed to fit 445 people in an ATR ?!?! A 777 or an A310 ?!?!
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