It's not every day that one sees a local domestic flight from Pakistan heading to its destination via India. This was witnessed by the passengers of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to Islamabad which set course for the capital city of Pakistan on Monday (July 24).
The PIA Flight deviated from its original flight path and entered into Indian air space at around 5:02 pm PKT (5:32 pm IST) on Monday.
It flew for about an hour and 12 minutes in Indian airspace.
It entered from Pakistan’s Hyderabad to India’s Rajasthan region where it flew over Rajasthan, onwards to Haryana and Indian Punjab to eventually cross into Pakistani territory through Kasur at 6:14 PM PKT(6:44 PM IST), open-source flight tracking data suggests.
Flight PK 308 was set to depart at 4 pm Pakistan time. Flight data suggests that on Monday, the flight took of 30 minutes more than the originally scheduled time.
The usual flight time from Karachi to Islamabad is up to one hour and 40 minutes, and the flight that took a detour via India took an extra 42 minutes to land, two hours and 14 minutes after take-off.
28/07/2023 WION
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