PIA Karachi to Jeddah flight PK-731 Lands in Abu Dhabi Due to Technical Problem in the Aircraft

[Abbas Ali]

Today, PIA Boeing 777-300ER registration AP-BMS performing Karachi to Jeddah flight PK-731 diverted to Abu Dhabi due to some technical problem in the aircraft.

The aircraft will resume its flight to Jeddah after getting its technical problem removed.

PIA has apologized to passengers for the inconvenience.

Flight PK-731 departed from Karachi at 6:11 PM and landed in Abu Dhabi about two hours later at 8:08 PM (Pakistan Standard Time).


Source: flightradar24.com

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PK731 decleard emergency Transponder 7700

[Abbas Ali]

The aircraft landed in Abu Dhabi due to lavatory leakage, according to following tweet:



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[Abbas Ali]

AP-BMS departed from Abu Dhabi at 10:00 PM (local time) after staying there for about three hours.


Source: flightradar24.com

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[Abbas Ali]

The aircraft had diverted to Abu Dhabi due to a broken lavatory tap/forward lavatory accidentally damaged by a passenger, according to information on 'The Aviation Herald' on the following link:

http://avherald.com/h?article=4becb251

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