{"id":29079,"date":"2025-11-27T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29079"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:04:01","slug":"authority-refutes-near-miss-claims-at-islamabad-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29079","title":{"rendered":"Authority refutes &#8216;near-miss&#8217; claims at Islamabad airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) has rejected reports that a near-disaster at Islamabad International Airport was averted, clarifying that a recent incident involving a foreign airline flight was nothing more than a routine aviation procedure, carried out according to global safety standards.<\/p>\n<p>The clarification comes after several media outlets had claimed that a catastrophe was narrowly averted when a flight, travelling from Jeddah to Islamabad, was stopped from landing on a closed runway at the last moment.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft eventually touched down at 5:13pm, over an hour later than its scheduled arrival of 4:05pm, according to flight-tracking service flightradar24.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Wednesday, the PAA explained that the event was being misconstrued. &#8220;The recent go-around at Islamabad International Airport involving the flight was a standard and internationally practised safety measure, executed precisely as per established protocols,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed out that such manoeuvres were part of the everyday toolkit of global aviation. A go-around, defined by the United States Federal Aviation Administration as a &#8220;safe, routine manoeuvre&#8221; that interrupts the landing approach so the aircraft can return to a stable altitude and make another attempt, was used in this case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go-arounds are common, non-emergency procedures carried out to ensure the highest level of operational safety,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The authority urged news organisations to exercise restraint when framing aviation developments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sensational reporting may unintentionally create unnecessary concern among the travelling public and lead to misunderstandings about normal aviation practices,&#8221; the statement noted. It called on media houses to &#8220;avoid presenting routine aviation procedures in a sensational manner&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) has rejected reports that a near-disaster at Islamabad International Airport was averted, clarifying that a recent incident involving a foreign airline flight was nothing more than a routine aviation procedure, carried out according to global safety standards. The clarification comes after several media outlets had claimed that a catastrophe was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}