Five Lost in 737 Cargo Crash

All five crew aboard a K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 cargo plane were killed Tuesday when it went down in the Arabian Sea off Pakistan. The crew reported some kind of navigation difficulty before the aircraft went off radar off the coast near Karachi. The plane was on its way to Karachi from Sharjah. Searchers have deployed to the area of the suspected crash and Pakistani publications are publishing the names of the five crew.

The flight appeared normal for an hour and eight minutes when the crew asked for help from air traffic control because of the navigation issues. According FlightAware the aircraft went into a rapid descent from about 33,000 feet before all communications were lost. K2 Airways began flying in 2019 and the old 737 was its only aircraft.

Russ Niles
Russ Niles
Russ Niles is Editor-in-Chief of AvBrief.com. He has been a pilot for 30 years and an aviation journalist since 2003. He and his wife Marni live in southern British Columbia where they also operate a small winery.

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Jerry Kemp
Jerry Kemp
12 days ago

I guess K2 Airways lost it’s whole fleet!