{"id":29620,"date":"2024-05-18T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2024-05-18T22:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:45:21","slug":"canada-bound-pia-flight-diverted-back-after-4-hours-in-the-air-for-technical-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/canada-bound-pia-flight-diverted-back-after-4-hours-in-the-air-for-technical-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Bound PIA Flight Diverted Back after 4 Hours in the Air for Technical Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<h5 dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29623\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PIA_Canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PIA_Canada.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PIA_Canada-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/PIA_Canada-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Karachi: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Islamabad to Toronto was diverted back to Karachi after a technical fault was noticed by the captain while flying over Russia, on Friday.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<h5 dir=\"auto\">The Boeing 777 with 268 passengers onboard was scheduled to take off from Islamabad Inter\u00adnational Airport at 2:15pm on Friday, but departed one hour late, according to flight inquiry.<\/h5>\n<h5 dir=\"auto\">PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez Khan said that PIA flight PK-781 was diverted back to Karachi after it developed a technical fault. When it chose to turn around, the plane had been in the air for four hours and was flying over Russia.<\/h5>\n<h5 dir=\"auto\">He said that the captain noticed a technical problem and then decided to divert the flight back to Karachi, landing after 1am on Saturday.<\/h5>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<h5 dir=\"auto\">He claimed that the technical problem with the aircraft was minor, but the captain preferred to return back, rather than to continue the long flight over the Atlantic.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Islamabad to Toronto was diverted back to Karachi after a technical fault was noticed by the captain while flying over Russia, on Friday. The Boeing 777 with 268 passengers onboard was scheduled to take off from Islamabad Inter\u00adnational Airport at 2:15pm on Friday, but departed one hour late, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[441,5234,323,48,322,5235,3191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29624,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29620\/revisions\/29624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}