*KARACHI -**PIA Pilot aborts take off from the Runway for one of itspassenger whose mother had passed away.*
* In an interesting turn of events, a PIA pilot took a ‘U-turn’ to drop offa grieving passenger from the take off point.*
Flight PK-741 taking off from Islamabad International Airport for Jeddahwas made to take an about turn from the take-off position after the news ofa passenger’s mother passing away got to the cockpit.
The plane’s captain was informed that a passenger in the flight had justgotten the news of his mother’s passing and was sobbing hysterically forher.
Observing the delicate nature of the situation, the captain decided tobring the plane back from the take-off point.
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The passenger was off-loaded, and the flight then resumed its regularlyscheduled voyage towards Jeddah.
In the past, Pakistan International Airlines has off-loaded overweightflight attendants, a move which met with mixed responses from the generalpublic.
A passenger in the past had had veteran politicians, Rehman Malik of PPPand Ramesh Kumar Vankwani (then PML-N and now PTI) off-loaded from a PIAflight after the flight was reportedly kept from taking off so thepoliticians could reach the plane at their ease.
