{"id":24270,"date":"2026-07-08T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24270"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:45:38","slug":"bird-strike-damages-engine-of-skardu-bound-private-airline-flight-during-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=24270","title":{"rendered":"Bird Strike Damages Engine of Skardu-Bound Private Airline Flight During Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KARACHI:<\/strong> A private airline flight bound for <strong>Skardu<\/strong> suffered a bird strike during takeoff from Karachi, causing significant damage to one of the aircraft&#8217;s engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an airline spokesperson, <strong>Flight PK-455<\/strong>, carrying <strong>170 passengers<\/strong>, was taking off when it collided with a bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impact caused <strong>severe damage to the aircraft&#8217;s No. 2 engine<\/strong>, with several engine blades reportedly breaking as a result of the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the incident, the aircraft did not continue its scheduled journey, and all passengers were safely transferred to the airport lounge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airline spokesperson said maintenance teams had begun repair work on the <strong>Airbus A320<\/strong> aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No injuries among passengers or crew were reported. The airline has not yet announced when the flight will resume or whether an alternative aircraft will be arranged for the passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: A private airline flight bound for Skardu suffered a bird strike during takeoff from Karachi, causing significant damage to one of the aircraft&#8217;s engines. According to an airline spokesperson, Flight PK-455, carrying 170 passengers, was taking off when it collided with a bird. The impact caused severe damage to the aircraft&#8217;s No. 2 engine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"no","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[{"account":"facebook_3859443944190656_798604363342440","service":"facebook","timestamp":1783518390,"status":"error"}],"rop_publish_now_status":"done","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24272,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions\/24272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}