1. B 720 on December 03, 1971 (City of Comilla) 2. F-27 Fokker Friendship on Jan 28, 1978 3. B747 on March 2, 1978 4. B 720 on March 3, 1981(Zulu Papa) 5. A 300 Airbus on March 12, 1988 6. F-27 Fokker Friendship on May 24, 1998 (City of Bannu) 1. City of Comilla, December…
Date Dec.23, 1980 Registration: AP-AXK Sectors: KHI-CMB; CMB-KHI Timings: KHI-CMB 0540-0920; CMB-KHI 1030-1405 Time is always recorded in GMT/UTC The outboard and inboard flaps on each wing at the rear are fully down in this photo and the leading edge flaps can also be observed Soon after I got my command on the B707/720B aircraft, I was…
The first airline from an Asian land country and the first airline from a Muslim country to fly the Super Constellation. The first Asian airline to operate a jet aircraft. The first Asian airline to be granted maintenance approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Air Registration Board, predecessor of the British…
“In considering how a pilot’s job description has changed from the hands-on era to the current era of programming and monitoring computers, old timers suggest that today’s pilots better be careful or they might program themselves out of a job. I don’t think that there are many old aviators from the hands-on era who envy…
In training to be a pilot on the four Cessna 150 airplanes of Pakistan International Airlines Flying Training Academy at Karachi Airport, Pakistan from May 1967 to May 1969, the only mishap encountered was when one fellow pilot trainee while low flying (prohibited), beat up a truck in the training area, hit it with the nose…
On June 18, 1985: Sector KHI-ATH (Karachi-Athens) Departure and arrival at 0540Z and 1135Z,*respectively *UTC Aircraft: B707-340C Registration: AP-AWY, freighter Call sign Pakistan Eight Zero Five. Routing via Dubai–Bahrain–Damascus–Nicosia. This flight was flown with First Officer Yousaf Mamsa (deceased in attack on Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar during recent unrest in Pakistan) and Flight Engineer…
Pakistan 801 [Eight Zero One] 21 March 1982 Sector: Orly (Paris)–Logan (Boston)– JFK (New York) 1235-2200; 0135-0250Z; AP-AWY, B707-340C Cockpit Crew Captain S.M. Husain First Officer Asif Akhtar Flight Engineer Mahmood Cabin Crew Flight Steward Commercial airliners have been lost when the pilot(s) hesitated in making a decision such as the Avianca’s B707 lost in…
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