{"id":11631,"date":"2023-05-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2023-05-08T03:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T22:20:35","slug":"after-failing-to-land-in-lahore-a-pia-flight-veers-into-indian-territory-for-ten-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/after-failing-to-land-in-lahore-a-pia-flight-veers-into-indian-territory-for-ten-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"After failing to land in Lahore, a PIA flight veers into Indian territory for ten minutes."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pro.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pro.webp 620w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pro-300x197.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption>The report stated that the heavy rain prevented the PIA aircraft PK248 from landing at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on May 4 around 8 o&#8217;clock.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft flew in Indian airspace for almost 10 minutes as the plane failed to land at the Lahore airport due to heavy rain, according to a media report on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PIA flight PK248, which returned from Muscat on May 4 at 8 pm, failed to land at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore due to the heavy rain,\u00a0<em>The News<\/em>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pilot attempted to land at the airport, but the Boeing 777 aircraft became unstable and could not land, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the instructions of the air traffic controller, the pilot initiated the go-around approach, during which he lost his way due to heavy rain and low altitude, the paper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aircraft, flying at an altitude of 13,500 feet with a speed of 292 km\/hr, entered the Indian airspace from the Badhana police station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane turned back from Naushehra Pannuan after travelling 40 kms through the city of Taran Sahib and Rasulpur in the Indian Punjab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While flying in Indian airspace, the captain took the plane to a height of 20,000 feet, and the plane flew in the Indian airspace for seven minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flight then re-entered the Pakistani airspace from near the village of Jhagian Noor Muhammad in the Indian Punjab. The flight then re-entered Indian airspace via the villages of Dona Mabboki, Chaant, Dhupsari Kasur and Ghati Kalanjar in Kasur district of the Pakistani Punjab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three minutes later, the plane re-entered Pakistani territory from the village of Lakha Singhwala Hithar in the Indian Punjab. At that time, the plane was at an altitude of 23,000 feet at a speed of 320 kms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After entering Pakistan\u2019s airspace, the plane flew to Multan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plane travelled a total of 120 kilometres in the Indian territory for almost ten minutes, the paper added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report stated that the heavy rain prevented the PIA aircraft PK248 from landing at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on May 4 around 8 o&#8217;clock. A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft flew in Indian airspace for almost 10 minutes as the plane failed to land at the Lahore airport due to heavy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[15589,1145,15588],"class_list":["post-11631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-indian-aviation","tag-pakistan","tag-pia"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11633,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions\/11633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}