KARACHI, July 4: A PIA Fokker plane, with 28 passengers on board, after landing at Panjgur airport drifted away from the runway and all its four tyres burst.

A PIA spokesman said here on Friday that the passengers and the plane remained safe.

He said that the PIA Fokker flight 553 which took off from Karachi at 1.15 pm drifted away from the runway after landing at Panjgur airport at 2.45 pm. The tyres burst and fortunately the passengers and the plane remained safe.—APP

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