Pakistan International Airlines Flight 653
ATR 42 · Under investigation
From Benazir Bhutto Airport, Pakistan to Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE)
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
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 46
- 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
- 0
- 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
ATR 42
- Aircraft type
- ATR 42
- 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-BHJ
- Operator
- Pakistan International Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Benazir Bhutto Airport, PakistanTo Allama Iqbal International Airport (LHE)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 653 was an accident that occurred on 31 August 2012 to an aircraft operating a scheduled passenger flight from Benazir Bhutto Airport to Lahore Airport, which, during its landing at Lahore, suffered a runway excursion with no fatalities or injuries.
Accident
The ATR 42-500 took off from Benazir Bhutto Airport at 14:04 local time on 31 August 2012 on a scheduled passenger flight to Lahore in Pakistan. At 15:20, during landing at Lahore airport, on runway 36R/18L the aircraft ran off the runway. The right main gear buckled and the aircraft came to a stop leaning to the right. One of the passengers said that the aircraft skidded during landing and ran off the runway as a result.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation into the accident is currently being carried out.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 653 de Pakistan International Airlines” (revision 161297332, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Vuelo 653 de Pakistan International Airlines
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 161297332 · 2024-07-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q6164979
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 653 de Pakistan International Airlines" (page 5397875, revision 161297332), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.