My father’s family migrated from Bukhara in present day Uzbekistan to India in the seventeenth century. A record of family transitions was available in the Punjab Library in Lahore, Pakistan.
I was born in the State of Hyderabad in 1947, now part of India, and have dual citizenship of Pakistan (1950) and Canada, where I landed as an immigrant in 1994.
My early education was at schools run by the Catholic nuns and brothers in Lahore, but I passed my school certificate exam from a boarding school in Sargodha. I was selected by Pakistan International Airlines for pilot training in 1967 during an undergraduate program at college.
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Hello,
https://smhusain1.com/2016/12/21/b707720-accident-score-1959-2011/
The B707 F-BHSZ AF212 accident in CCS occured on 03DEC69, not on 04DEC69.
cf https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19691203-0
cf news papers edition the next day https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=pqgf-8x9CmQC&dat=19691204&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
Best regards
Olivier Marty
it has been corrected
Thanks
Hi – I have recently read Harry Hawker’s book ‘Our Atlantic Attempt’. In looking for more information I came across your blog on this topic. It is superb in giving the human background as well as the aviation details of the Atlantic race. Looking further at your blog I can see a remarkable and vast collection of material which I look forward to reading.
Best wishes – Andy Cornwell
Salam Alaikum.
My father, Late Captain ASN Hyder flew for Orient Airways an PIAC in the company of all the legends of PIA.
To my knowledge, all his colleagues, with the exception of Capt. S.S. Akbar and Capt. Muhammadul Ameen have passed on.
I’d be extremely grateful if you could help me to get in touch with Cap.S.S. Akbar.
Fi Amanillah.
Iftikhar Ahmed Nasir
Capt.(PIA) Retired S.S.Akbar
35831937; 335870484; 0333-231-4567.
Jazak Allah khair!
May Allah SWT forever keep you and yours in the shade of His Rahmat and Baraqah.
Fi Amanillah.
Jazak Allah khair & Ramadhan Kareem!
I like this weblog so much, saved to fav.
Sir, Do you know Capt. Amjad Faizi ?
Yes I knew him as my senior in PIA flying community. I did fly with him also on the Fokker F-27.
Thank you. I was trying to find the incident when the plane he was flying belly landed at Karachi airport. I didn’t see this in your article PIA accidents.
It is covered in PIA Accidents and Incidents:
4/2/1986; Boeing 747-282B; AP-AYW
The one i am looking for was a flight took off from Karachi for Quetta, had to return back to Karachi and and ultimately landed without nose wheel. I am unable to see this story. I believe it was in 1980 or 1981
Yes it happened. But like the Mehrabad Airport landing at Tehran there was no one hurt and the aircraft landed without the nosewheel because it didn’t come out. There were two captains on board, Amjad Faizi was in charge.
Thank you, Sir !