Passengers on a Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) Islamabad-bound flight complained that they were unable to breathe as the national carrier closed doors while they kept seating in the plane for over an hour.
Passengers complained and asked the cabin crew to open the doors but to no avail. One of the passengers claimed that the cabin crew took away their phones when they tried to make a video.
Flight PK-300 from Karachi to Islamabad was delayed by over an hour on Friday; the take-off was delayed owing to a technical fault, according to a PIA spokesperson.
In August last year, a video had gone viral of a mother pleading PIA’s crew to open doors of a plane as her baby had allegedly fallen unconscious due to faulty air conditioning.
Published in Daily Times, January 6th 2019.
