Islamabad-bound Saudia Flight SV-888 From Jeddah Diverted to Karachi

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Islamabad-bound Saudia Flight SV-888 From Jeddah Diverted to Karachi

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According a newspaper report, on February 18 Saudia flight SV-888 from Jeddah to Islamabad was diverted to Karachi due to some technical problem in the aircraft.

According to information on following link, on February 18 Saudia Boeing 777-268ER registration HZ-AKL was performing flight SV-888 and it landed at Karachi Airport at 7:08 PM. The flight was scheduled to arrive in Islamabad at 8:30 PM.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/sv888

The return flight SV-889 to Jeddah that was scheduled to depart from Islamabad at 10:15 PM on February 18 is suffering delay of more than sixteen hours, according to a news channel.

Seems HZ-AKL is still at Karachi Airport.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/hz-akl

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Re: Islamabad-bound Saudia Flight SV-888 From Jeddah Diverted to Karachi

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Looks SV sent TF-AAH / Boeing 747-4H6 JED-KHI to take SV888 Pax KHI-ISB and its approching ISB arount 23:00 PAK time.
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Re: Islamabad-bound Saudia Flight SV-888 From Jeddah Diverted to Karachi

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^ thank you AbdulAziz for the info.

BTW, HZ-AKL departed from Karachi today at 1:23 PM as flight SV-9060 - probably ferry flight to Jeddah?

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/hz-akl

Information about Jeddah-Karachi, Karachi-Islamabad and Islamabad-Jeddah flights performed by Saudia Boeing 747-4H6 (TF-AAH). The B747 arrived in Karachi at 7:54 PM on February 19 as flight SV-9060 from Jeddah. It departed from Karachi at 9:31 PM as flight SV-2030 to Islamabad where it landed at 11:04 PM. From Islamabad it departed at 12:50 AM on February 20 as flight SV-2031 to Jeddah where it landed at 4:11 AM.

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/tf-aah

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