Overview
- The freighter lost radar and radio contact late Tuesday while about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi after the crew reported a navigation‑system fault, Karachi Area Control Centre said.
- Pakistan launched a large multi‑agency search that used navy frigates, maritime patrol and air force surveillance aircraft plus commercial vessels, and wreckage was located and recovered about 53 nautical miles south of Ormara after roughly 12 hours of searching.
- Preliminary ADS‑B data compiled by FlightRadar24 show the 737 first lost about 5,000 feet in under a minute, climbed roughly 6,000 feet, then entered a near‑vertical plunge from about 36,550 feet with a final transmitted altitude near 1,100 feet and an estimated descent rate around 22,400 feet per minute.
- The aircraft was a roughly 27‑year‑old Boeing 737‑400 freighter, registration AP‑BOI, leased to K2 Airways in 2024, and the carrier identified the five missing crew as Captain Muhammad Rizwan Idris, First Officer Faisal Mehmood, Loadmaster Muhammad Taufiq, Engineer Arif Siddiqui, and Muhammad Hamid.
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered intensified search efforts and officials say national accident investigators will lead a formal inquiry once wreckage and data recorders are secured while rough monsoon seas continue to hamper recovery and evidence collection.