Shaheen Air flight makes emergency landing at Karachi airport

E-Paper | June 14, 2026

KARACHI: A Shaheen Air International flight made an emergency landing in Karachi, after the aircraft's tyre burst during take-off from Islamabad on Friday evening.

Shaheen Air International flight NL901 was scheduled to fly from Islamabad to Manchester, carrying around 150 passenger and crew. But the flight was asked to make an emergency landing in Karachi following the tyre burst.

The aircraft ran a circuit pattern around Karachi's Quaid-e-Azam International Airport before making an emergency landing after the emergency services and Air Traffic Control had cleared the runway.

The flight landed safely with all passengers, and crew on board, well and accounted for.

Earlier in November, at least 10 passengers were injured as the tyre of a domestic Shaheen Air International flight burst during an emergency landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport.

The plane skidded off the Lahore runway when faulty landing gear caused the tyre to burst, according to initial reports.

The fuselage of the aircraft was damaged after the plane skidded off the runway.

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Naxalite

Jun 10, 2016 07:06pm

Shocked to know that these decades old expired planes are still in service. They ll only be grounded once a crash occurs. Where is CAA?

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Usman

Jun 10, 2016 07:31pm

@Naxalite this one's a new plane. Incompetent airline is the problem!

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Sunil

Jun 10, 2016 07:34pm

Its a rule of law, after every 5 landing and take off, need to change the tires. Check the treads, whether worn off or not.

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nasir siddique

Jun 10, 2016 07:41pm

Shaheen Air is having incidents with shocking regularity, especially burst tires. Time for authorities to review their safety and reassure public and avoid a deadly crash.

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The End is Near

Jun 10, 2016 07:58pm

Criminal negligence of CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) Pakistan. No check and Balance. They are only waiting for a big air disaster to happen. The DG of Civil aviation has no engineering qualifications (Requirement for the post) and has no experience flying commercial airplanes. The 'Negligent' CAA is also responsible for completion delays of Islamabad's new airport.

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Arslan

Jun 10, 2016 08:02pm

Who are the majority shareholders of this airlines?

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Jun 10, 2016 08:17pm

When there is no PM in there country, how can we expect anything gov. offices like NADRA, PEMRA, CAA etc.. This government has destroyed our institutions!

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Muhammad Zafar iqbal

Jun 10, 2016 08:29pm

Very pathetic condition of fleet and services , these sort of airlines are risk for passengers who opt to fly these airlines .

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Sony

Jun 10, 2016 08:37pm

Thank god everyones safe...

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Common Sense

Jun 10, 2016 08:40pm

Either get new planes or shut down the airline.

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Desi Bhai

Jun 10, 2016 08:42pm

Not again! Need more pilot training by all the low cost carriers!

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Rana Chakwal

Jun 10, 2016 08:51pm

What is CAA doing why are they playing with people's lives??

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Bkt

Jun 10, 2016 09:04pm

It is time for the airline to either invest I passenger safety or to close it down if it will not. Already once before there was a tyre burst.

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Mitr

Jun 10, 2016 09:09pm

just fix the puncture

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JO JO

Jun 10, 2016 09:21pm

Third class airline...repeated accidents n know action from PAK authorties

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Zubair

Jun 10, 2016 09:48pm

@Naxalite Crash has already occurred in the past. No one was moved it seems

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Hassan Khan

Jun 11, 2016 12:27am

This is nearly a 9 year old plane, its nothing to do with airplane, its the maintenance the plane needed after every few flights and that what CAA has to look into seriously.

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wqrsl

Jun 11, 2016 12:58am

Go ahead Shaheen air management and CAA, put the blame for this maintenance negligence on the pilot again...

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TZaman

Jun 11, 2016 03:33am

This airline's record is not very good. Why it can't be closed down?

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Mullah Bob

Jun 11, 2016 05:04am

They been buying used tyres from foreign airlines.

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kashif

Jun 11, 2016 05:20am

for your information plane came all the way from Islamabad to Karachi only for landing,...denied landing @Islamabad&Lahore?? pathetic caa/airline.... with half of altitude &speed,height of 9000 to 16000 feet,speed of under 500km/hour

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Hassan Kamal

Jun 11, 2016 07:46am

Keeping all the important factors in mind, Daewoo is the safest and cheapest traveling option I guess. My sincere advice to people, Please never do things at the last minute. Its apparently easy to take a plane and reach your destination in a very short period of time however aircraft mantainence is complicated science that doesn't seem to be understood in Pakistan. Always plan ahead, Safety first.

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Ahmar Qureshi

Jun 11, 2016 09:30am

Every one's safe & that is a good news! @ShaheenAir, please double / tripple check with everything! stay safe!

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Philosopher (from Japan)

Jun 11, 2016 11:09am

Playing with human lives is not acceptable. Can anyone drag them in court of law?

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