{"id":786269,"date":"2026-07-08T05:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:09:12","slug":"k2-airways-boeing-737-plane-vanishes-off-coast-of-pakistan-after-taking-off-from-sharjah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786269\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 Airways Boeing 737 plane vanishes off coast of Pakistan after taking off from Sharjah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">A plane has vanished off the coast of Pakistan, with authorities urgently searching to find the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Boeing 737 \u2014 operated by K2 Airways \u2014 lost all contact with air traffic control after taking off from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Data shows the plane rapidly descended before making a sharp turn and vanishing off radars about 9.21pm local time on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Authorities revealed just minutes before the rapid descent, crew reported a navigation system issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">K2 Airways confirmed five people are on board the plane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d4eca0d5b299514a550585ea43d98378c16441f6.jpg\" alt=\"The K2 Airways flight path right before it disappeared off radars.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconThe K2 Airways flight path right before it disappeared off radars. Credit: Fligthradar<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThere were 5 crew members on board the aircraft,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cSearch and rescue operations are being conducted by the concerned organisations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cK2 Airways is fully cooperating with the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority and government agencies. We continue to pray, earnestly, for the safety of our colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Early flight data indicated the plane possibly crashed into the sea southwest of Karachi after a series of sharp altitude changes, according to flight-tracking service Flightradar24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">If casualties are confirmed, the incident would be the first fatal crash in Pakistan since 2020, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A320 came down short of the runway in Karachi, killing 97 people after pilots were distracted discussing the coronavirus before a failed landing attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">&#8211; With Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane has vanished off the coast of Pakistan, with authorities urgently searching to find the aircraft. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3148,99,43,44,41,39,42,40,1346],"class_list":["post-786269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aviation","tag-business","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}