The Avro York was operated by Skyways Limited but was owned by the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation. It had been issued with a certificate of airworthiness three days before its ill-fated flight. The aircraft had been built in 1946 and had undergone a complete overhaul in November 1952. Skyways Limited’s Avro York G-AHFA was a four-engine aircraft which disappeared while transporting a troop of soldiers, their families, and six crew members from the United Kingdom to Jamaica. Pakistani International Airlines Flight 404 is believed to have crashed in the Himalayas particularly in the region around Nanga Parbat, and all the occupants are presumed to have died immediately.Ĥ. The Pakistani military was dispatched to conduct search operations which bore no results. The flight was later lost from radar with no communication being received from the crew. The flight’s pilot made a routine radio communication at 7:40 which was the last message received from the aircraft. The Fokker F27 aircraft had just landed at the Gilgit Airport from the nation’s capital, Islamabad and was ferrying a batch of passengers back to Islamabad. The aircraft was a relatively old aircraft, clocking about 44,524 hours of flight since its construction in 1962. Under bizarre circumstances, a Fokker F27-200 Friendship aircraft and its 54 occupants disappeared. In 1989, the aviation industry in Pakistan was hit by the disappearance of the Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404. Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 (1989) Some of these incidents led to the disappearance of hundreds of passengers on board the flights. However, the industry has also experienced several bizarre incidents which have changed history, including the disappearance of aircraft while on a flight. The aviation industry has grown in leaps and bounds since the first flight by the Wright Brothers took place in the early 20th century.

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