Created Wednesday, Sep 10th 2025 16:48Z, last updated Wednesday, Sep 10th 2025 16:48Z
An Airblue Airbus A320-200, registration AP-EDG performing flight
PA-470 (sched. dep Sep 8th, act. dep Sep 9th) from Lahore (Pakistan) to Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), was enroute at FL320 when the crew decided to divert to Karachi (Pakistan) due to problems with the weather radar. The aircraft landed safely on Karachi's runway 25L about 2.5 hours after departure.
The airline reported a problem with the weather radar as reason for the precautionary diversion.
A replacement A320 registration EP-EDH was to continue, however, needed to return to Karachi, see Incident: Airblue A320 at Karachi on Sep 9th 2025, bird strike.
The occurrence aircraft was able to resume the flight after about 27 hours on the ground and reached Jeddah with a delay of about 28:15 hours.
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