Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326
Boeing 720 · Hijacking
From Karachi to Peshawar
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 144
- Survivors
- 143
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Boeing 720
- Flight
- PK326
- Aircraft type
- Boeing 720
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- AP-AZP
- Operator
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From KarachiTo Peshawar
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by the militant organisation Al Zulfiqar led by Murtaza Bhutto. Bhutto was the son of former Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who was deposed in a coup and later executed by Zia-ul-Haq. It was a routine flight scheduled from Karachi to Peshawar, but the hijackers diverted it to Kabul, Afghanistan, and then Damascus, where the hostage situation ended with the release of prisoners by the Zia-ul-Haq government as demanded by the hijackers.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326
- Revision
- 1372572676 · 2026-09-01 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q4579941
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326" (page 28487252, revision 1372572676)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.