PIA plane makes emergency landing at Lahore

LAHORE – A Riyadh-bound PIA flight carrying 290 passengers made emergency landing at Lahore Airport on Thursday evening due to some technical faults in one of its engines. The Civil Aviation Authority said the PIA plane, which took off from Faisalabad for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia via Karachi, experienced some serious problems after around 10 minutes and reported the matter to the control tower. The control asked the pilot to divert plane to the Lahore Airport. The pilot successfully landed the plane, as all of them including cabin crew remained unhurt. Technicians and engineers were busy in fixing the fault till late at night but the plane could not take off till filing of this report at 12:30 am. The passengers and their families were perturbed over the situation as they were clueless about the fate of their onward journey in absence of any word from the PIA management. 

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