A team of experts from Pakistan International Airline (PIA)’s engineering department fixed a faulty aircraft of a private airline at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore, clearing the runway for flight operations.
On Tuesday, a Shaheen Air Boeing Flight NL-148 flying from Karachi to Lahore with 172 people on board, landed on Lahore’s runway around 3:30pm but veered right off the runway and came to a stop on soft ground with the aircraft’s left main gear strut collapsed.
As a result Lahore airport’s runway 36R was closed for flight operations while runway 36L continued to operate normally.
Initial examination of the aircraft had revealed evidence of a bird hitting the upper nose gear strut and damaging a nose wheel steering control cable while the aircraft was descending through about 100 feet above ground level (AGL).