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According to Geo News, a C-130 Cargo Plane having a technical stop over at PEW was fired upon while landing at night time. According to sources one bullet hit the aircraft. It seems like Taliban have come back in the vicinity of airport taking advantage of the focus on Islamabad events and perhaps are reorganizing themselves. Not a good news as there is risk of foreign careers again cancelling their flight operations to Peshawar
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I don't get why they can't shift the ILS on the opposite side of the runway which has a more safer approach
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Cargo plane comes under fire near Peshawar airport

By Riaz Ahmad

Published: September 1, 2014

PESHAWAR:
A Russian cargo plane was attacked in the outskirt of Peshawar before it landed at the Bacha Khan International Airport late on Sunday.

According to details, around 9pm on Sunday the aircraft was attacked with an AK-47 rifle in the Sheikh Muhammadi area of Peshawar. The plane was hit by a single bullet in tail.

CCPO Ijaz Khan confirmed the report and said that there was no report of loss in the attack and the aircraft managed to land safely. He added that it was cargo plane rather than a passenger one.

Source: tribune.com.pk
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Russian cargo plane
Antonov An-12 ?
the aircraft was attacked with an AK-47 rifle in the Sheikh Muhammadi area of Peshawar
Seems the aircraft was approaching Runway 35 of Peshawar Airport.

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maybe azamqazi because there is no ILS at peshawer?
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Peshawar Airport is the only Big City Airport in Pakistan where there is no ILS system. Runway 35 has a non precision VOR DME approach and the landing approach passes right over the most notorious areas of KP. Because I am a local, I know this area very well. this area is just like Lyari of Karachi, even worse because 40-50% of population of this area is notorious for being involved in all types of notorious activities ranging from giving refuge to proclaimed offenders to carjacking rings, terrorists, kidnappings etc etc.
Runway 17 approach passes over safer areas but there is no landing aids installed at this end, so only morning, clear weather visual landings can be made from this side and night landings are a no no.
It would require at least installing a DME and approach lighting system at Runway 17 end if they are serious in long term solution to this problem
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Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tender notice published in May 7, 2014, newspaper for the construction of Instrument Landing System (ILS) building with allied works at Bacha Khan International Air Port (BKIAP) - Peshawar.

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Again this is for Runway 35. Even if they install a CAT-III ILS system at this end, the landing flights will still be at risk of getting hit by small arms fire. If this is installed at Runway 17, security wise it will be better, but again who will make CAA understand. Some one once said that common sense in fact is a very rare sense
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Terrorists fire at NATO cargo plane in Peshawar

Javed Aziz Khan

Monday, September 01, 2014

PESHAWAR:
In the second attack on an aircraft in Peshawar since June 24, a cargo plane escaped attack just before landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport on Sunday night, a source told The News.

“The plane carrying NATO cargo has landed safely at the airport for refuelling as per schedule. It was hit with a single bullet. The location from where it might have been fired is being confirmed,” SSP Peshawar Najibur Rahman told The News.

An official confirmed they were carrying out a search operation in the limits of the Badaber police station.The source disclosed that armed men opened fire at a cargo aircraft enroute from Afghanistan to the Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar, from the funnel area when it was about to land.

The source said that bullets and tracers were fired at the plane which received only one of the bullets near the rear landing gear assembly. “The plane landed safely at the airport. The bullet mark was found later by the crew during the post flight inspection,” said the source.

The attack is second on an aircraft from the funnel area during the last couple of months. One woman was killed and two crew members were wounded when an Airbus of the Pakistan International Airlines was attacked in the funnel area in June 24.

Several international flights suspended their flight operations after the attack that they have resumed recently.The security of the airport and surrounding area was increased and around 18,000 houses in the funnel area were registered. The data, pictures and fingerprints of all the male members in 16 villages was also collected.

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The police conducted a search operation in the limits of the Badaber Police Station after the Sunday night-time attack. “The place from where the attack was carried out has been identified. It was launched from the agricultural fields in Sulemankhel village,” Capital City Police Officer Ijaz Ahmad told The News.

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Unsafe flights: CAA not informed about firing on Russian aircraft

By Umer Farooq

Published: September 2, 2014

PESHAWAR:
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has not received any report about the gun attack on a Russian cargo plane which occurred late Sunday night at the Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar minutes before the aircraft landed.

Requesting anonymity, an official of the aviation authority told The Express Tribune on Monday that the cargo plane was shot at before it landed, however, fortunately, no casualties occurred.
He added the CAA headquarters has still not received a report of the incident because the pilot did not share any information with the airport administration.

“The pilot did not inform us of the incident,” he said. He maintained that operations at the airport have not been suspended and were running as per schedule.

Another official of the CAA said, “Hajj flights as well as international flights are travelling on schedule. Neither we nor any airline has halted its activities, but we have increased security inside the airport.”

He added security provisions outside the airport had also been beefed up and security forces were already deployed after the attack on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane earlier in June.

CAA Spokesperson Pervez George confirmed to The Express Tribune that the incident has not been reported by the pilot as yet. “The pilot is bound to report to the CAA in case something happens to the plane, however, the CAA headquarters has not received any report,” said George.

Late Sunday night, shots were fired at a Russian cargo plane from the vicinity of Sheikh Muhammadi village. The bullets were fired from an AK-47 and only one hit the aircraft. The attack occurred when the plane was flying at a lower altitude while attempting to land at the airport.

Source: tribune.com.pk
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