KARACHI: A Pakistan-registered Boeing 737 cargo plane with five crew members on board lost contact with air traffic control on Tuesday night after reporting a navigational system problem on its way from Sharjah to Karachi, prompting search and rescue operations, Pakistan aviation authorities said.
The 27-year-old aircraft, operated by K2 Airways, reported a navigational system issue at 2118 Pakistan Standard Time (1618 GMT) while flying toward Karachi, Pakistan Airports Authority said on Facebook.
Local air traffic control tried to guide the aircraft but three minutes later, radar systems showed the aircraft descending rapidly and communication was lost, the authority said. The flight was about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi at the time, according to the statement.
Preliminary data points to a possible crash in the sea southwest of Karachi, flight-tracking service Flightradar24 said on X.
The aircraft went missing while flying over the Arabian Sea near Ormara in Balochistan, local media said.
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