*ISLAMABAD – **Pakistan International Airlines administration responds overmedia reports of fire in inflight aircraft.*
*A PIA flight, PK-759, was grounded at the Lahore airport and thepassengers were offloaded after its fire alarm system malfunctioned. *
The flight was going from Lahore to Jeddah. PIA spokesperson Mashood Tajwarsaid that there was no fire on the plane, as other news outlets werereporting. The fire alarm went off, he said, but it wasn’t due to a fire.
It was a technical issue in the avionic system, he explained. The firewarning system wasn’t working properly, he said, adding that this is thesystem that tells you if there is a fire.
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Because of that malfunction, we grounded the flight, he said. PIA doesn’tfly with faulty planes, he added.
