Lahore airport runway cleared for flight operations
The aircraft of a private airline has been removed from runway.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – A team of experts from PIA’s engineering department fixed faulty aircraft of a private airline at the Allama Iqbal International Airport, clearing the runway for flight operations.
On Tuesday, a Shaheen Air Boeing 737-400, registration AP-BJN performing flight NL-148 from Karachi to Lahore (Pakistan) with 172 people on board, landed on Lahore s runway around 3:30pm but veered right off the runway and came to a stop on soft ground with the left hand main gear strut collapsed.
There were no injuries, the passengers were disembarked through the forward left hand main door via mobile stairs and were shifted to the terminal.
Lahore airport’s runway 36R was closed for flights while runway 36L continued to operate normally.
Initial examination of the aircraft revealed evidence of a bird hitting the upper nose gear strut and damaging a nose wheel steering control cable while the aircraft was descending through about 100 feet above ground level (AGL).
