19 PIA planes grounded for poor maintenance
 

Nearly half of the PIA fleet has been grounded because of poor maintenance of its old and outdated aircraft.

“The Pakistan International Airlines is facing grounding of highest ever number of 19 planes in its history,” a source told Dawn on Sunday.

Two PIA aircraft have been grounded after emergency landings in Leeds, UK, and Muscat recently.

Note: Leeds is incorrect. Should be Manchester as a PIA B777-200 diverted to Manchester enroute Toronto due to gear door issue.
Incident: PIA B772 over North Sea on Feb 24th 2013, gear door indication

There was an incident with a PIA aircraft at Leeds however. The PIA A310 AP-BDZ had a serious hydraulic leak just before the push back last night so its had to overnight to be fixed.

video of landing of PIA A310 at Leeds at Feb 23


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PIA Planes Grounded
 

They don't call it "Please Inform Allah" for nothing.

I don't get why the PIA A310 landing at Leeds is from a year ago,how does this relate to this weekends events?.

Was the landing in the video really 'bad'? And in what way?
I couldn't tell....

Folks,
It is a far cry from the 70's. when PIA maintenance was very good and very conservative, and highly rated by FAA.
Tootle pip!!

No Lazy Man it was a 'really scary dangerous landing'...

I think the Video was worse than the landing ! :E

Well, it did look as if he was still going quite quick as he passed the glidepath aerials at the upwind end :eek: