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Pia Emergency Landing


What: Pakistan International Airlines ATR-42-500 en route from Islamabad to Lahore
Where: Lahore
When: August 31, 2012
Who: 46 aboard
Why: While landing in Lahore in heavy rain, the plane’s right main gear collapsed, and the plane ran off the runway.

There were no injuries but the plane was damaged. Pia reported that the main gear collapsed and denied earlier reports of injury. No one was hospitalized.

Passengers disembarked via stairs on the runway shoulder and were provided transportation to the gate.

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