Airblue A320 near Karachi on Sep 9th 2025, problems with weather radar
Last Update: September 10, 2025 / 16:48:08 GMT/Zulu time
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 9, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
Airblue
Flight number
PA-470
Departure
Lahore, Pakistan
Destination
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Aircraft Registration
AP-EDG
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
The airline reported a problem with the weather radar as reason for the precautionary diversion.
A replacement A320 registration EP-EDH was to continue, however, needed to return to Karachi, see Incident: Airblue A320 at Karachi on Sep 9th 2025, bird strike.
The occurrence aircraft was able to resume the flight after about 27 hours on the ground and reached Jeddah with a delay of about 28:15 hours.
Incident Facts
Date of incident
Sep 9, 2025
Classification
Incident
Airline
Airblue
Flight number
PA-470
Departure
Lahore, Pakistan
Destination
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Aircraft Registration
AP-EDG
Aircraft Type
Airbus A320
ICAO Type Designator
A320
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