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| 10 injured as Shaheen Air flight crash lands |
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LAHORE: At least 10 passengers were injured as the tyre of a domestic Shaheen Air International flight burst during an emergency landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport on Tuesday.
The Karachi-Lahore flight NL-142 was carrying more than a hundred passengers, airport sources say. Shaheen Airlines flies four flights from Karachi to Lahore daily.
The injured were provided with immediate medical treatment. None are said to be in critical condition.
Faulty landing gear
The plane skidded off the Lahore runway when faulty landing gear caused the tyre to burst, according to initial reports.
Passengers were evacuated through an emergency gate of the aircraft. — DawnNews screengrab
The fuselage of the aircraft was damaged after the plane skidded off the runway.
The pilot of the aircraft had given prior intimation to airport authorities regarding the fault in the landing gear before making the emergency landing.
Aviation authorities and the fire brigade reached the spot in a timely manner.
Luggage fell on passengers
A passenger of the flight told reporters that, "The aircraft was facing some problems even at the time of take off from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport (JIA)." He said that the tyre of the aircraft had broken off on the impact of landing at Lahore and added that the turbulent landing had also caused luggage to fall upon some passengers.
Another passenger said that, "Everything was alright and fine, even until two minutes before landing everything was alright. I am not sure what went wrong at the time of landing, whether it was fault with the plane or anything else."
Fearful and panicked passengers were evacuated through an emergency gate.
"This seems to be a normal landing which resulted in a runway excursion," a pilot of an international airline told Dawn.com.
Director of Engineering at Shaheen Air International, Syed Samin Uddin Naqvi, told Dawn.com that, "The aircraft was checked before the flight according to standard procedures." He said that the airline would also conduct its own investigation into the incident.
Naqvi claimed that no passengers were injured during the landing.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Pakistan spokesman Pervez George said that a Safety Investigation Board would probe the incident.
All domestic flights at the airport were delayed as a result of the incident, according to a tweet by CAA. The delayed flight numbers are as follows: Shaheen Airlines flight NL-143, Pakistan International Airlines flights PK-303 and PK-652.
PIA Spokesman Daniyal Gilani told Dawn that confirmation for flight timings could be made on the following number: 111-786786
Source: Dawn
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| Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:19 pm |
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