"It was not a balloon which someone can put in his pocket and disappear, it was a big plane with over 300 passengers onboard," Pervaiz Rashid. PHOTO: PID
Talking to media persons after the inauguration of the Readers Club at National Book Foundation in Islamabad, Rashid said that all data of Pakistan’s air traffic control system was available and that nothing was being hidden.
Commenting about the flight, the minister said that there were very few places in Pakistan where a plane the size of the missing Malaysian airliner could land, these include Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore airports.
"It was not a balloon which someone can put in his pocket and disappear, it was a big plane with over 300 passengers onboard," he said adding that western media reports were speculative at best.
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The leaned info minister in the TV interview have many a times mentioned the aircraft as boeing 747...for god sake, the aircraft is a triple seven(777) totally different genre. And coming this from the information minister makes it all the more ludicrous.