Riyadh-bound PIA plane makes emergency landing at Karachi airport   

KARACHI: A Riyadh-bound plane of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had to make an emergency landing at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi after a crack appeared on its side screen, ARY NEWS reported.     

According to sources at the Karachi airport, the PIA plane flew for Riyadh from Islamabad and had to land at the Karachi airport after a side screen of the plane got cracked. “The plane was landed at the Karachi airport while keeping in view the safety measures,” they said.

The sources further shared that the side screen was later replaced by the engineers and the plane was allowed to leave for Saudi capital.

Recently, a Quetta-bound Pakistan International Airline (PIA) plane encountered an accident at the Islamabad International Airport.

The incident occurred with an Airbus A320 owing to the alleged negligence of a tug master, resulting in damage caused to the wheel of the plane.

It emerged that during the pushback process, the connecting rod of the tug master broke down, resulting in infrastructural damage.

The PIA plane had to be grounded after the incident and passengers of the Quetta-bound flight were disembarked and shifted to the lounge of the Islamabad airport.

A PIA spokesman while commenting on the matter said that the front landing gear of the plane got damaged after the pressure pin and the connecting rod broke down after a brake failure.

The plane has been grounded and a team of engineers is dispatched to Islamabad, he said adding that the passengers were sent to Quetta via another flight, PK-3205.