Contrails over Lahore

nutsforplanes · Post by **nutsforplanes** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:19 pm

Today ( Feb, 2nd) at around 5:45 pm, I saw contrails of what looked like a B747 with three small planes around it, heading West.

Was it the plane of Saudi king leaving Pakistan, being escorted by PAF fighters?

ammad · Post by **ammad** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:33 pm

Yes , timings or his departure is same but i m not sure about PAF fighter planes.

AP-BGL · Post by **AP-BGL** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:37 pm

I am in Faisalabad these days, I saw number of contrails making planes every day... I've taken some pictures of them as well and will post them soon as I get back to Islamabad.

I cannot acctually figure out what planes and airlines are those? Are they international or domestic one?

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:12 pm

AP-BGL wrote:I am in Faisalabad these days, I saw number of contrails making planes every day... I've taken some pictures of them as well and will post them soon as I get back to Islamabad.

I cannot acctually figure out what planes and airlines are those? Are they international or domestic one?

Probably International, unless they are from KHI doing domestic flights to LHE or ISB

kamalla · Post by **kamalla** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:01 am

ammad wrote:but i m not sure about PAF fighter planes.

Although I can't say for sure that PAF fighters were escorting this particular aircraft, it is the policy of PAF to escort aircraft of foreign leaders into and out of Pakistani air space. Or atleast I know for a fact that it was in the past, as my Uncle lead many such flights when he was a Squardon Leader flying F-16s out of Kamra.