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Miss Anisa Adenwalla and Miss Farida

 

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Pia shows that we can build success stories if we are serious and put effort in it . pia glorious history is the witness of it.

 

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Munib Mir​

April 27, 2018 ·

Glorious photo of PIA's third DC-10-30 registered AP-AXE. This particular aircraft flew non-stop from New York City, USA to Karachi, Pakistan, in 13 hours & 25 minutes on its delivery flight to PIA in October, 1974.

This was a world record holder for the longest delivery flight up to that time. I first flew from Karachi to Rawalpindi on AP-AXE on March 14, 1975 to attend the funeral of my maternal grandmother who had died that afternoon.

Sadly, AP-AXE was destroyed in a hangar fire at Karachi Airport in early March, 1981 while undergoing maintenance. I firmly believe that the fire was intentionally set because Airport Security Force personnel didn't allow fire engines to enter the hangar to extinguish the fire & PIA also didn't issue any accident report mentioning the actual cause of the start of the fire.