The latest incident of plane crash of Bhoja Airline that killed all 127 on-board passengers including nine crew members is the second occurrence in a period of less than two-year since an Airblue airbus dashed in the Margalla Hills on July 28, 2010, killing all 152 onboard people. Following the tragedy, the government sought a […]
Director General Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Captain Nadeem Yousafzai has said that neither there was any technical fault in the Bhoja Airline plane that crashed Friday near Rawalpindi nor the weather warning was too much high to raise the aerial limits. While addressing a news conference on Saturday, he said the last contact was made […]
A US-made Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashed on August 17, 1988 near Bahawalpur, killing military ruler General Mohammad Ziaul Haq and 30 others including Pakistani generals and the US ambassador. A PIA Fokker carrying 54 people disappeared on August 25, 1989 after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan. The wreckage is never found. A PIA Airbus […]
Bhoja Airlines’ plane crash in which 118 passengers and nine crew members lost their lives was the 36th incident of passenger planes crashes in Pakistan. At least 705 were dead in the previous 35 jet crashing incidents in the last 64 years. Air flight B-4 213 crashed about 4 nautical miles (roughly 8 kilometers) from […]