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News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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Samaa news channel in the UK is reporting that a plane was on fire over Karachi. They're saying that the plane is small and was seen by many people over Karachi.

Apparently it was PK213 and it returned safely to Karachi.
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Aircraft flying low with one engine failure at KHI

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Just heard over Geo T.V that aircraft flying low probably with one engine failure over Korangi KHI region, is now on approach for emergency landing. Wondering which Aircraft is this?
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PK213 according to Samaa.
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Re: Aircraft flying low with one engine failure at KHI

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Karachi to Dubai flight PK-213 operated with an Airbus A310-300. An engine of the aircraft caught fire after takeoff.

Engine number 1 of the aircraft caught fire, according to ARY News.

Pilot reported engine fire at 10:25 PM.

The aircraft returned to Karachi from distance of about 30 nautical miles, according to Pakistan CAA spokesman.

The aircraft has returned to Karachi safely.

Conflicting information about number of passengers aboard the aircraft. Some news channels say there were 54 passengers, another says 130 passengers and another channel says more than 200 passengers were aboard the aircraft.

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PIA PK 213 Engine catches fire-Make an Emergency landing

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PK 213 - ( Karachi - Dubai ) Flight Engine catches fire after Departuring... Emergency landing. Onboard passengers 54
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53 Pax were on board for capacity of 227.
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AirBus A310-300 ( AP-???)
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The aircraft carried total of 62 persons including crew members, according to PIA spokesperson statement on Geo News.

The flight departed for Dubai at 10:10 PM and caught fire moments after take off, according to PIA spokesperson.

The aircraft carried:

2 x Cockpit Crew
6 x Cabin Crew
54 x Passengers

Total 62 souls onboard.

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Re: News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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Alhamdulillah it was not too serious and every1 is safe.
more than ever they need the new narrow-body specially with such poor load
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Re: News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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It was PIA Airbus A310-308 registration AP-BEC powered with General Electric CF6 engines.

The A310 landed on Karachi Airport Runway 25L.

Info Source: http://avherald.com/h?article=4698a074&opt=0

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AP-BEC.

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Re: News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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In such cases why they dont use Runway 25R rather than 25L, so they can continue to operate other flights on 25L.
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Alhamdulilllah they landed safely back at KHI [-o<
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Re: News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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Alhamdulilah everything went well.

How many times in the past has AP-BEC had problems? I think to much in the last year?
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Re: News report: aircraft on fire over Karachi.

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^ As per Avherald, reported incidents for just 4 for Echo Charlie including current one but previous 3 incidents are not engine related
http://www.avherald.com/h?search_term=a ... rch.y=-105
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