PA470 - Incident: Airblue A320 at Karachi on Sep 9th 2025

An Airblue Airbus A320-200, registration AP-EDH performing flight PA-470 (sched. dep Sep 8th, act. dep Sep 9th) from Lahore (Pakistan) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), resumed the flight after the initial aircraft needed to divert to Karachi, see Incident: Airblue A320 near Karachi on Sep 9th 2025, problems with weather radar. The aircraft departed Karachi's runway 25L and climbed to FL340, then the crew decided to return to Karachi due to a bird strike during departure. The aircraft landed safely on Karachi's runway 25L about 75 minutes after departure.

The aircraft is still on the ground in Karachi about 23 hours after landing back.