Overview
- The K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 reported a navigation‑system malfunction and then lost radar and radio contact late Tuesday after a sharp heading change and rapid descent about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi.
- K2 Airways said five crew members were on board and released their identities while the airline cooperates with authorities.
- Flight‑tracking services including Flightradar24 show extreme altitude fluctuations — a rapid drop, a brief climb and a second dramatic fall with the last data point near 1,100 feet and a descent rate of about 22,400 ft/min — but those telemetry are preliminary and not definitive without recovered recorders.
- Pakistan activated a Rescue Coordination Centre and deployed navy and air assets including frigate PNS Zulfiqar, Pakistan Air Force surveillance aircraft, navy ATR patrol planes and diverted merchant vessels to the last known area; no wreckage or survivors have been publicly confirmed.
- The 1999‑built 737-400 freighter (registration AP‑BOI) is K2 Airways’ only aircraft and had recent maintenance reports, and investigators will examine maintenance records, communications, radar/ADS‑B data and any recovered wreckage or flight recorders as the inquiry continues.