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| Pak airliner lands at PAF base by mistake |
| 2005-12-17 |
| LAHORE: A Pakistan International Airlines plane mistakenly landed at Pakistan Air Force’s Faisal base in Karachi on Friday, reported Geo news channel. Oopsie! The plane was later rerouted to Jinnah international terminal, added the channel. A PIA spokesperson told BBC Urdu that the Boeing 737 had been purchased on a lease and a Turkish pilot was flying the plane. The spokesperson said the PIA plane came from Dubai and it safely landed at PAF Faisal base around 12:45pm, reported BBC quoting Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) administration as saying that the plane landed at the air force base by mistake. PIA administration said the plane crew had been suspended and an investigation was underway to ascertain the cause of the incident. Let me guess, they weren't keeping track of where they were. No GPS? |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #2 Someone pointed out that several ISI protected members of the Indian mafia live and travel between the UAE and Pakistan. The terrorist / mafia don Dawood Ibrahim had complete freedom to move - anytime India located him and asked the UAE to detain him, Pak pressure forced the UAE to back off. Post 9-11, the UAE cannot play this game any longer. It can tell India where to get off but not the USA. All airports in Pakistan have US agents and equipment (linked to databases in the US) monitoring the passengers so travel from the UAE is now very dangerous. The diversion to the PAF airbase may have been to let someone very important off, unseen by the US. |
| Posted by: john 2005-12-17 19:01 |
| #1 Huh? Doesn't the Pak base have a tower? Don't tower personnel communicate with the pilots of any approaching flight? This just sounds too weird. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-17 14:05 |