Karachi bound PIA's ATR 42/72 plane PK-581 narrow escaped from a catastrophic mishap

MULTAN, Dec 11th: A  Karachi bound PIA's ATR 42/72 plane PK-581 narrow escaped from a catastrophic mishap on Sunday night and pilot managed to make emergency landing and lives of  48 passengers and crew when it  took off from Multan International airport tonight at 0920 PM. The pilot immediately  saw a spark in one of its engine. He immediately made emergency landing to save the lives of passengers. Air port Manager Azhar Mehmood said that plane is safe and all the passengers were boarded off. Now engineers  are working to rectify the fault in the plane. Passengers are highly terrified.Some of them have cancelled their journey. PIA District Manager Baqar Naqvi said that Pilot felt a spark in the engine and he made emergency landing.Yet another Pakistan International Airline (PIA) aircraft made an emergency stop after its engine caught fire.

According to media reports, the PIA flight PK-581 was departing from Multan when its engine caught fire during take off after which the aircraft made an emergency stop on the runway.Luckily, no causalities have been reported and the only trouble that will be faced by the passengers is the delay caused by the incident.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) announced early on Monday that its flight PK-581 from Multan to Karachi had been delayed on account of a technical issue.

In a statement, the national flag-carrier contradicted media reports claiming that an engine of the aircraft had caught fire. “Neither of the two engines of PK-581 caught fire and pilots on the advice of ATC, decided not to take off,” PIA Spokesperson Danyal Gilani said.“A team of engineers is being sent to Multan and aircraft would be made operational after its clearance,” he added.Earlier, a Facebook post surfaced in which a woman claimed her husband, who was travelling on flight PK-581, had alerted an air hostess after seeing the engine of the aircraft on fire. She said her husband had forced other passengers to take action to prevent the flight from taking off after the air hostess tried to placate him.

Muniza Saad

17 hours ago

Alhamdulilah my husband is safe and was flying back from same ATR PK 581..he was the first one who shouted out and called the air hostess to complain about the fire that was caught in the engine..it all happened when only 7 seconds were left for the plane to take off
On complaining, she said its ok..these are just sparks..but my husband insisted and said that the plane will gonna blast in air once the plane takes off
Then my husband screamed & forced other passengers to take ...

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She further claimed that passengers were initially supposed to fly on a Boeing aircraft and were later “forced to travel through this defected ATR, as there was some technical fault.”

“I think PIA shall be closed … they don’t care about our lives … all they care about is making money even if it cost human live(s). PIA is certainly not a Pakistan International Airline as they don’t care about us Pakistanis,” she concluded.

Later on Monday morning, the national flag-carrier announced it had temporarily suspended all ATR operations after a crash last week killed 47 people and a second aircraft reported technical issues shortly before take off.

In view of Civil Aviation Authority’s decision of holding shakedown tests of PIA’s entire ATR fleet, it has been decided to keep all 10 ATR aircraft grounded till they are cleared after thorough examination, a press release from the airline read.