Shaheen Air Flight Crash Landing Causes Casualties
The Shaheen Air flight NL-142 which was travelling from Karachi to Lahore made an emergency landing which caused the tire to burst and injured 10 passengers. All the injured passengers were given an immediate medical treatment and none were reported to be in serious condition.
As soon as the incident happened, it was reported that the tire burst happened due to the faulty landing gear. The airport authorities were informed of this problem by the pilot that he had observed some problem in the landing gear of the aircraft. Passengers were seen to be frightened by the emergency landing incident and to rescue the passengers, aviation authorities and fire brigade had reached the place on time.
Following the incident, Civil Aviation Authority of Pakistan (CAA) was reported as tweeting:
“Due to runway incident at #Iqbal Int’l Airport of #Lahore following domestic flights are delayed until further notice #NL143 #PK303 #PK652.”
Another tweet by CAA was reported as:
“Despite of runway incident at #Iqbal Int’l Airport of #Lahore, main runway 18L/36R is active for wide body aircraft handling. Stay safe!”
In the current year, Shaheen airline’s four aircrafts were grounded because of the safety reasons and Mr. Pervez George, spokesman of CAA was reported as saying that these aircrafts were grounded because they did not meet the safety standards and their movement could lead to a disastrous incident.
