Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404
1989 aircraft disappearance
35°14′12.87″N 74°35′24.22″E / 35.2369083°N 74.5900611°E / 35.2369083; 74.5900611
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 was a Fokker F27 Friendship that disappeared shortly after takeoff on 25 August 1989. The aircraft presumably crashed somewhere in the Himalaya Mountains, Pakistan. All 54 people on board were lost and presumed dead.[1]
Disappearance
At 07:36, the flight took off from the northern city of Gilgit, Pakistan on its way to the national capital Islamabad. One of the pilots of the aircraft made a routine radio call at 07:40; this was the last communication with the aircraft. The aircraft is thought to have crashed in the Himalayas, but the wreckage has never been found. It is widely believed that the civilian aircraft was deliberately shot down by the Indian Army with an anti-aircraft missile, fired from a base along the Line of Control. [2]
Aircraft
The aircraft was a Fokker F27-200 Friendship turboprop airliner, c/n 10207, built in 1962 and registered as AP-BBF.[3] It had accumulated approximately 44,524 hours of flying time; and 41,524 cycles (the number of times the aircraft had been pressurized) at the time of the accident.[1]
Search operation
After the disappearance, several aerial search missions were launched by the Pakistani military during the first three or four days. Later, land search parties were organized, comprising civilian and armed forces personnel. These searched the area around the 8,000-metre-high (26,000 ft) mountain Nanga Parbat, but found nothing.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Accident Report". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ Mir, Shabbir (29 August 2016). "27 years on, flight PK-404 still a mystery". The Express Tribune. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "AP-BBF - All Pakistan Aircraft Registration Marks". Retrieved 29 August 2022.
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Aviation accidents and incidents in Pakistan
- Korangi Creek Douglas DC-3 crash (December 1947)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 17 (February 1966)(*)
- Indian Airlines hijacking (January 1971)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 631 (December 1972)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326 (March 1981)
- Indian Airlines Flight 405 (July 1984)
- Indian Airlines Flight 421 (August 1984)
- Pan Am Flight 73 (September 1986)
- Death of President Zia (August 1988)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 (August 1989)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 544 (May 1998)
- Pakistan Navy Breguet Atlantique shoot-down (August 1999)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688 (July 2006)
- Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash (July 2009)
- Airblue Flight 202 (July 2010)
- JS Air Flight 201 (November 2010)
- Sun Way Flight 4412 (November 2010)
- Bhoja Air Flight 213 (April 2012)
- Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash (May 2015)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661 (December 2016)
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 (May 2020)
- Pakistan Army helicopter incident (August 2022)
(*) in East Pakistan, now the independent country of Bangladesh
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