ISLAMABAD: The fuel tank of a Shaheen Airline plane set to depart for Karachi was found leaking, leaving passengers stranded at Benazir International Airport for over two and a half hours, Express News reported on Saturday.
The leakage was found when passengers were getting ready to board the plane. Sources said that the plane, which was due to fly at 10am, had undergone a full maintenance check, but the leak had not been discovered then.
Passengers had not been informed that there was a fuel tank leak, but were informed after a long waiting period that the plane will be flying back to Karachi.
Officials at the airport confirmed that it was a fuel tank leak and said that the remaining passengers would either be sent to Karachi on another airplane or would be directed to go home.
Last month, shortly after the Bhoja Air crash, the fuel tank of another Shaheen Air plane began leaking as it was about to take off from Lahore airport.
More recently, a consumer court awarded four petitioners Rs50,000 each on a suit seeking total damages of Rs40 million from Shaheen Air International over a lengthy delay in a Dubai-Lahore flight.
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Pakistanis, please value your precious lives, and stop travelling on these shady airlines and risking your lives just to save a few rupees.
below link you can find aircraft technical history of all pakistani airlines. http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Country/Pakistan after reviewing contents above you will find all shaheen and bhoja air lines average 30 years old. some of the their planes shown store at different airport for average 10 years, may be few details surprise you. thx
After many mishaps in couple of months, I decided to go to my home via bus route. No option :(
Was it the same plane as last month. I have a feeling it probably was.
If Shaheen Air is not going to take care of its old age aircraft's, I am sure that one of the Shaheen Airline aircraft will burst into flames during the flight and in the air.
For God's sake, don't play with the lives of innocent passengers.
The nation has already lost precious human lives in Airblue and Bhoja Air incidents in less then two years.
please stop travelling on shaheen/ other locals...take the train if you value yor life
They certainly have leaking planes and our CAA is a top notch Aviation Regulator??? Where will we go next Mr. Pervez George??? Have they checked Shaheen's leaking toilets which mix with its tap water???
Can someone inform us of the history of the said machine [aircraft] ?
Its good to know a few even went to the Consumer court and got their compensation
What "Shaheen" has to do with fuel ? Baad-E-Mukhalif is enough for him !!!