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Pia Jet Struck by Catering Truck

What: PIA Pakistan to Manchester
Where: Allama Iqbal International Airport Pakistan
When: October 24, 2012
Who: 203 aboard (183 economy class passengers, 16 business class and four infants)
Why: After passengers had boarded for the 11:45 a.m. flight to Manchester, and the plane was about to taxi for take off, a catering van drove onto the tarmac and into the parked aircraft, damaging the door of the plane.

Passengers disembarked and had to wait at the airport for hours until 7:30 when the replacement plane for PK 709 left for Manchester.

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