{"id":68604,"date":"2025-03-20T19:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=68604"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:06:38","slug":"pia-flight-avoids-major-accident-after-bird-strike-at-lahore-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pia-flight-avoids-major-accident-after-bird-strike-at-lahore-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"PIA flight avoids major accident after bird strike at Lahore Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A Pakistan International Airlines (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pia-to-resume-uk-flights-after-eidul-fitr-2025\/\">PIA<\/a>) flight narrowly avoided a major accident after a bird hit the aircraft while landing at Lahore Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Boeing 777, operating as flight PK-860 from Jeddah to Lahore, had over 300 passengers on board at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the bird hit the plane\u2019s engine number 2, causing significant damage. After inspection, the plane was grounded for further testing.<\/p>\n<p>PIA aircraft engineers are currently conducting a detailed inspection to assess the extent of the damage and determine the necessary repairs before the plane is returned to service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight narrowly avoided a major accident after a bird hit the aircraft while landing at Lahore Airport. The Boeing 777, operating as flight PK-860 from Jeddah to Lahore, had over 300 passengers on board at the time of the incident. According to sources, the bird hit the plane\u2019s engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3657,372],"class_list":["post-68604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-international-airlines","tag-pia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68605,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68604\/revisions\/68605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}