ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s passenger plane with at least 47 people on board crashed Wednesday during a domestic flight from Chitral to Islamabad, an airline spokesperson said. Following is a chronology of major air crashes in the country or involving Pakistani planes,
May 20, 1965: A PIA Boeing 707 crashes on its inaugural flight while attempting to land at Cairo airport, killing 124 people.
August 6, 1970: A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while attempting to takeoff from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people on board.
December 8, 1972: A PIA Fokker F27 crashes in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. All 26 people on board were killed.
November 26, 1979: A PIA Boeing 707 bringing home Pakistani Hajj pilgrims from KSA crashes shortly after take-off, killing 156 people.
October 23, 1986: A PIA Fokker F27 crashes while coming in to land in Peshawar, killing 13 of the 54 people on board.
August 17, 1988: A US-made Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashes near Bahawalpur, killing military ruler General Mohammad Ziaul Haq and 30 others including army generals and the US ambassador.
August 25, 1989: A PIA Fokker carrying 54 people disappears after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan. The wreckage was never found.
September 28, 1992: A PIA Airbus A300 crashes into a cloud-covered hillside on approach to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu after the plane descended too early, killing 167 people.
February 19, 2003: An air force Fokker F27 crashes in fog-shrouded mountains near Kohat, killing air force chief Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali, his wife and 15 others.
February 24, 2003: A chartered Cessna 402-B carrying Afghan mines and industries minister Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, four Afghan officials, a Chinese mining executive and two Pakistani crew crashes into the Arabian Sea near the southern city of Karachi.
July 10, 2006: A PIA Fokker F27 bound for Lahore crashes into a field and bursts into flames shortly after takeoff from Multan, killing 41 passengers and four crewmembers.
July 28, 2010: An Airbus 321 operated by the private airline Airblue flying from Karachi crashes into hills outside Islamabad while preparing to land, killing all 152 people on board.
November 5, 2010: A twin-engine plane operated by Pakistani charter JS Air carrying staff from an Italian oil company crashes shortly after take-off in Karachi, killing all 21 people on board.
November 28, 2010: At least 12 people were killed when a Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane operated by Georgian airline Sunway crashed in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi.
April 20, 2012: A Bhoja Air Airbus 737 from Karachi comes down in bad weather near Islamabad, killing 130 people on board.
May 8, 2015: A Pakistani military helicopter crashed, killing eight people including the Norwegian, Philippine and Indonesian envoys and the wives of Malaysian and Indonesian envoys, and setting a school building ablaze in a remote northern valley of near Gilgit.
