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August 6, 1970:
A PIA Fokker F27 aircraft crashes while take off from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people on board.
December 8, 1972:
A PIA Fokker F27 crashes in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. All 26 people on board are killed.
November 26, 1979:
A PIA Boeing 707 bringing Pakistani Hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia crashes after take-off from Jeddah airport, killing 156 people.
October 23, 1986:
A PIA Fokker F27 crashes while coming in to land in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 13 of the 54 people on board.
August 17, 1988:
A US-made C-130 military aircraft crashes near Bahawalpur, killing military ruler General Mohammad Zia ul Haq and 30 others including Pakistani generals and the US ambassador.
August 25, 1989:
A PIA Fokker carrying 54 people disappears after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan. The wreckage is never found.
September 28, 1992:
A PIA Airbus A300 crashes into hillside on approach to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu after the plane move down too early, killing 167 people.
February 19, 2003:
An air force Fokker F27 crashes in fog-shrouded mountains near the northwestern city of Kohat, killing air force Chief Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali, his wife and 15 others.
February 24, 2003:
A chartered Cessna 402-B carrying Afghan Mines and Industries Minister Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, four Afghan officials, a Chinese mining executive and two Pakistani crew crashes into the Arabian Sea near city of Karachi.
July 10, 2006:
A PIA Fokker F27 bound for Lahore crashes into a field and bursts into flames shortly after takeoff from the city of Multan, killing 41 passengers and four crew.
July 28, 2010:
An Air blue Airbus 321 operated by the private airline Air blue flying from Karachi crashes into hills outside Islamabad while preparing to land, killing all 152 people on board.
November 5, 2010:
A twin-engine plane operated by Pakistani charter JS Air carrying staff from an Italian oil company crashes shortly after take-off in Karachi, killing all 21 people on board.
November 28, 2010:
At least 12 people are killed when a Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane operated by Georgian airline Sunway crashes in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi.
April 20, 2012:
Air Bhoja Air Airbus 737 from Karachi comes down in bad weather near Islamabad, killing 121 passengers and 6 crew members.
May 8, 2015
A Pakistani military helicopter crashes, killing eight people including the Norwegian, Philippine and Indonesian envoys and the wives of Malaysian and Indonesian envoys, and setting a school building ablaze in a remote northern valley of near Gilgit.
December 7, 2016
A PIA ATR-42 aircraft crashes on way from Chitral to Islamabad. The crash claims lives of all 48 passengers and crew, including singer-cum-preacher Junaid Jamshed.
May 22, 2020:
A PIA PK-303 commercial airliner crashes near the Karachi Airport while completing a journey from Lahore.
