Pilgrims take over Haj plane

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:02 pm

Pilgrims take over Haj plane
By Saleem Shahid

QUETTA, Dec 10: More than 300 intending pilgrims staged a sit-in inside a plane for several hours here on Sunday when the Jeddah-bound aircraft could not take off due to technical problems.

However, authorities later persuaded them to leave the plane and made arrangements for them in hotels.

PIAÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s flight was scheduled to leave the Quetta airport for Jeddah at 11am, but the plane could not reach Quetta from Karachi on time. The intending pilgrims had reached Quetta airport four hours before departure time.

The PIA staff told them that the plane would reach Quetta at 3pm. The PIA Haj flight landed at the airport at 3.43pm and 305 intending pilgrims boarded the plane at 4:30pm as PIA announced that the plane would leave for Jeddah at 5pm.

However, a technical fault was subsequently detected and the flight was delayed further. When PIA engineers and other staff removed the fault, the authorities told the passengers that the flight had been cancelled because no plane could take off from the Quetta airport after sunset.

Source: Dawn Newspapers, 2006

CoyBoy · Post by **CoyBoy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:22 pm

It was a L1011-500 and not PIA's own aircraft.

SalamPaks · Post by **SalamPaks** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:58 am

Sorry, but what a bunch of cnuts.

Che · Post by **Che** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:19 pm

SalamPaks wrote:Sorry, but what a bunch of cnuts.

Airline or the passengers? BTW, you've misplaced the letter "u"....

SalamPaks · Post by **SalamPaks** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:11 am

Ever heard of a juxtaposition?

and I'm referring to the passengers en-route to perform what is undoubtedly the most important religious rites of their lives acting like fools.