KARACHI: Riyadh-bound Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight made anemergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport due to technicalfault.
Sources said that the PIA flight PK-729 was enroute to Riyadh from Multanwhen it made an emergency landing at Karachi airport due to technical fault.
The pilot of the aircraft immediately contacted the control tower to seekpermission for an emergency landing and safely landed the aircraft withmore than 130 passengers on board.
Earlier in January, Karachi-bound flight of Pakistan International Airlines(PIA) suffered serious damage after a bird hit near Jinnah InternationalAirport.
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According to details, PIA flight PK-311 coming from Quetta was hit by abird while landing at Jinnah International. The pilot, however,successfully made landing as no human injury was reported.
One wing of the plane has been damaged which is currently being repaired bya team of engineers. This was a first bird hit incident of the year 2020.
