Karachi: A Pakistan Airlines flight remained in Indian airspace for 10 minutes after it failed to land at the Lahore airport due to heavy rains and returned to Pakistan after a 120-km flight in India’s Punjab. This has been said in the local media report. It has been said in the news that when flight PK-248 coming from Muscat of Pakistan’s state-run airline company reached Lahore airport for landing at 8 pm on May 4, it was raining heavily. The pilot tried to land at Allama Iqbal International Airport at 8.05 am but the Boeing 777 aircraft became unstable and could not land.
The News reported that on instructions from the ATC, the pilot initiated a go-around approach but lost his way amid heavy rain and low altitude. The plane entered the Indian border near Badhana police station in Punjab at 8.11 pm. When the Boeing 777 aircraft entered the Indian border, its speed was 292 kilometers per hour and it was flying at an altitude of 13,500 feet. He entered India near Chhina Bidhi Chand village, 37 km from Amritsar.
According to The News, the aircraft turned back after reaching Naushera Pannuan via Taran Sahib and Rasulpur in Indian Punjab. By then he had covered a distance of 40 kms. The pilots took the aircraft to an altitude of 20,000 feet in Indian airspace. The aircraft remained in Indian airspace for seven minutes and then entered the Pakistani side of Jhagian Noor Mohammad village in Indian Punjab. After this, the aircraft again entered the Indian border via the villages of Doona Maboki, Chant, Dhupsari Kasur and Ghati Kalanjar in Kasur district of Punjab, Pakistan. Three minutes later, at 8.22 pm, the aircraft went back to the Pakistani border from Lakha Singhwala Hithar village in Indian Punjab. At that time the aircraft was at an altitude of 23,000 feet and was flying at a speed of 320 kilometers per hour. The News reported that after entering Pakistani airspace, the aircraft headed towards Multan via Hujra Shah Mukim and Dipalpur. The aircraft traveled 120 kilometers in 10 minutes in Indian airspace.
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