*KARACHI – **Foreign Airline plane escapes disaster, makes emergencylanding at Multan Airport *
* A Doha-bound Airbus A-320 aircraft from Multan made an emergency landingat Multan airport following a bird strike on Sunday.*
The Gulf Air GF-789 flight was safely landed at Multan airport and allpassengers were evacuated following a technical landing made by theaircraft just after taking off.
According to airport officials, the plane received partial damages in itsengine during the incident. The plane was grounded and a team of engineerswas called for its repair.
The passengers were shifted airport lounge and they will fly again towardstheir destination after completion of the repair, sources said.
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In a separate incident on Sunday morning, a citizen has died followingcardiac arrest inside the parking area of Peshawar airport.
The deceased person was identified as Nazeer Khan, who was immediatelyshifted to hospital by Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials for medicaltreatment but unfortunately, he couldn’t survive the heart attack.
According to CAA officials, Mr Khan belongs to Karak, who has arrived in atthe airport to receive a passenger coming through Qatar Airways’ flight.
