NO FLIGHT SAFETY SITUATION OCCURRED AT QUETTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: PAF SPOKESPERSON

Lahore: It is clarified that no flight safety situation occurred during landing phase of PK-368 at Quetta International Airport. Both the pilots of the PAF fighter jets were in visual contact with the civil airliner and also in radio contact with Air Traffic Control Tower.

As both the combat pilots were visual with the airliner thus they maintained vertical as well as lateral safe separations as per International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules.

Similarly, at the same time the Air Traffic Control Tower informed the pilot of PK-368 about the presence of PAF fighter jets at safe distance.