ISLAMABAD, July 9: A Pakistan International Airlines aircraft carrying 433 passengers made an emergency landing at Jeddah airport on Monday because of fire alarm, officials said.

The flight, PK-742, manned by 15 crew members, was coming to Islamabad when it developed a technical fault shortly after take-off.

Engineers said that the turbine of one of the engines disintegrated during the aircraft’s ascent, adding that it happened before the aircraft was hardly over 1,000 feet high. This caused a fire warning and the ‘bottles operated’.

“It was a rare incident,” an engineer said.

No one was injured in the incident, which caused panic among hundreds of passengers and the airport authorities, a source in the airline said.

All 16 tyres of the aircraft deflated on landing.