Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nPakistan is searching for a missing Boeing cargo plane off Karachi after it rapidly descended. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
A search was underway in Pakistan today for a Boeing cargo plane missing off the coast of Karachi after radar showed it \u201crapidly descending\u201d, the Pakistan Airport Authority said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
\n The plane, operated by the private K2 Airways, had five crew members on board and was
\n en route from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Karachi when it went missing on Tuesday evening (local time) after reporting a \u201cnavigational system issue\u201d, the authority said.\n <\/p>\n
At 9:21pm, the aircraft was observed on radar \u201crapidly descending and with rapid heading change\u201d and communication contact was lost about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi, the Pakistan Airport Authority said.<\/p>\n
A rescue co-ordination centre was activated and a search effort launched at sea to locate the missing aircraft, it added.<\/p>\n
Preliminary data sent from the plane \u201cindicated a loss of altitude, followed by a climb, and then a second, sudden and dramatic loss of altitude\u201d, according to Flightradar24.com, a global flight-tracking service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 8 Jul, 2026 05:06 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,2681,1124,4474,37055,11586,195672,2082,42,78,54951,6501,43,6662,2476,15026,3117,10088,67666,3048,1870,23554,1865,40,38,41,39,58455],"class_list":["post-515358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-airport","tag-authority","tag-boeing","tag-cargo","tag-coast","tag-descending","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-karachi","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-off","tag-pakistan","tag-plane","tag-post","tag-radar","tag-rapidly","tag-said","tag-search","tag-showed","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-underway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}