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February 22, 1981, photo of a PIA McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 with its evacuation slides deployed at Paris Orly Airport.

Slides were deployed for the evacuation of passengers and crew due to bomb threat information received by the flight crew.

The aircraft had arrived in Paris from New York under the command of Capt. Johnny Sadiq and was taxiing when it received information about the bomb threat.

 

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Seventy-five years ago in May 1951, the Government of Pakistan placed order for three brand new Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation aircraft to establish country's own airline Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

All three brand new Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation aircraft were delivered to PIA in 1954.

 

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50 years ago on April 27, 1976, PIA's first Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet flew into Karachi from Lisbon via London & Islamabad.

The first of the two Jumbo Jets, acquired on lease for three years from Portuguese Airline, TAP, had been repainted with the colours of PIA at London. From Islamabad, the Boeing 747 brought a team of journalists, other guests and high officials of PIA, including its Chairman, Air Marshal (retired) Nur Khan.

Although 15 teams of PIA crew were already trained to fly the aircraft and 50 PIA engineers to maintain them, Portuguese airline also provided instructor pilots for the first few months.

The Boeing 747 gave PIA's international passengers the choice of 3 aircraft i.e. Boeing 707, McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and Boeing 747.

 

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PIA advertisement celebrating induction of two Boeing 747-200B jumbo jets in airline's fleet in 1976.

 

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1991 photo of a brand new PIA Airbus A310 performing a test flight in France.

 

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1966 photo of a brand new PIA Hawker Siddeley Trident performing a test flight in UK before delivery flight to Pakistan.

 

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PIA Boeing 707 at Bahrain Airport.

 

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PIA Fokker F27 Friendship taxiing at Karachi Airport.

 

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some good news finally

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has selected former head of Ethiopian Airlines Tewolde Gebremariam as its new chief executive officer, two officials said on Saturday, as the former Pakistan state carrier seeks to revive its operations.
Under Tewolde's leadership, Ethiopian Airlines grew into Africa's largest carrier and provided a link to cities around the continent from its transit hub in Addis Ababa.
His appointment could boost Arif Habib Group-led consortium's bid to revive the struggling Pakistani airline, privatized in Dec. after accumulating over $2.8 billion in losses over the years.
Arab News reached out to Arif Habib, chairman of the Arif Habib Group, but he did not respond.
However, a well-placed PIA official confirmed that Tewolde has been selected to take the airline's helm.
"The PIA would not announce his name until all the security clearances are not completed," the official said, requesting anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to media.
A major PIA shareholder also confirmed the development to Arab News.
"He (Tewolde) has been hired. He is a very capable person and has done a lot of turnarounds," the shareholder said, declining to be named.