Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404
Fokker F27 Friendship · Missing; presumed crashed
From Gilgit Airport (GIL) to Islamabad International Airport (ISB)
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
- Incident
- Event fatalities
- 54 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 54
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
Fokker F27 Friendship
- Flight
- PK404
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F27
- 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-BBF
- Operator
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 54
- Route
- From Gilgit Airport (GIL)To Islamabad International Airport (ISB)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 (پی آئی اے پرواز 404) was a Fokker F27 Friendship that disappeared shortly after takeoff on 25 August 1989. The aircraft presumably crashed somewhere in the Himalayas, Pakistan. All 54 people on board were lost and presumed dead.
Disappearance
At 07:36, the flight took off from the northern city of Gilgit, Pakistan, on its way to the national capital Islamabad. One of the pilots of the aircraft made a routine radio call at 07:40; this was the last communication with the aircraft. The aircraft is thought to have crashed in the Himalayas, but the wreckage has never been found. Some conspiracists claimed that the aircraft was shot down by India after it crossed the Line of Control, though there is no evidence supporting this.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404” (revision 1372572906, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
Sources
Wikipedia article: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404
- Revision
- 1372572906 · 2026-09-01 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q16202320
- 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 404" (page 41817578, revision 1372572906)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- 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.