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).
Shaheen is a very poorly run company with unsafe Pilots who are not Trained on the B737 Series they are given to fly it is a only matter of time when they will meet with another Accident such as in 2012 cause by inexperieced pilots who did a 2.5 G landing.. I am surprised this a minor accident not as the Airblue accident few years ago.
The CAA of Pakiatan is corrupt and incompetant authority that adding to this problem because they have given the go ahead to Shahen to fly with unsafe crews. Another Aurthority EU,CANADA or FAA would not allow such a travesity to Aviation to happen . I ask Mr Nawaz Sherif to appoint a committee to Ivesitigate PK CAA & their permission for Shaheen or other private Airlines to fly . The Travelling publis is at risk.
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