| Date: | Wednesday 17 October 2001 |
| Time: | 14:09 |
| Type: |  Airbus A300B4-203 |
| Owner/operator: | Pakistan International Airlines - PIA |
| Registration: | AP-BCJ |
| MSN: | 268 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1983 |
| Engine model: | General Electric CF6-50C2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 205 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dubai Airport (DXB) -
 United Arab Emirates
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Peshawar Airport (PEW/OPPS) |
| Dubai Airport (DXB/OMDB) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Flight PK231 from Islamabad via Peshawar veered off the side of the runway at Dubai after the right hand maingear collapsed as it touched down. The aircraft skidded and eventually came to rest in sand 50 metres from the runway. The aircraft sustained damage to its right wing structure and its no. 2 engine, which partly broke off the wing.
Sources:
Gulf News
ICAO Adrep
Location
Images:
photo (c) Reinhard Zinabold, via Werner Fischdick; Dubai Airport (DXB); December 1999
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