After abrupt descent that unnerved air-traffic controllers, crew of PIA jet briefly put it on runway with wheels still up, grinding along on its two engines.
Journalists could be seen screaming into microphones that they had recorded footage of all injured and dead in the plane crash, so that ‘we can bring it to you first’.
The crash of Pakistan's national flag carrier, in which 97 people were killed and two miraculously survived, is one of the most catastrophic aviation disasters in the country's history.
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Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
What if they didn’t forget to lower the landing gear, but decided to make a late go-around (when understood they spent too much of the runway) and prematurely pulled up flaps and landing gear? They were too low, airplane continued to sink after flaps were pulled up and engines scratched the runway before enough thrust was generated to lift the airplane up again.
What if they didn’t forget to lower the landing gear, but decided to make a late go-around (when understood they spent too much of the runway) and prematurely pulled up flaps and landing gear? They were too low, airplane continued to sink after flaps were pulled up and engines scratched the runway before enough thrust was generated to lift the airplane up again.