30th Anniversary of PIA Flight PK404 Disappearance in Himalayan Mountains

[Abbas Ali]

Thirty years ago, on August 25, 1989, PIA Fokker F27 Friendship (AP-BBF) performing early morning flight PK404 from Gilgit to Islamabad vanished in Himalayan mountains. The ill-fated aircraft was carrying a total of 54 people including 5 crew members and 49 passengers.

Aircraft's wreckage has never been found to this day.

Abbas

[fahadshakeel]

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Above IEEE convention was termed for web errors based on this incident

[Khan747]

Found an article on Brock University website written by one of the passenger who was lucky to escape return flight.
https://brocku.ca/social-sciences/geogr ... ow-escape/

[A310]

Interestingly PIA operated 3 extra section flights from Dubai to Lahore in June as PK-404.

[Abbas Ali]