Mysterious PIA Flight That Vanished and Still Hasn't Been Discovered
At 07:36, a Fokker F27-200 Friendship turboprop airliner, registered as AP-BBF, took off from Gilgit, Pakistan, bound for Islamabad. The aircraft, built in 1962, made a routine radio call at 07:40—its final communication before disappearing. The plane is believed to have crashed in the Himalayas, but no wreckage has ever been recovered.
Speculation suggests that the civilian aircraft might have been accidentally shot down by the Indian Army using an anti-aircraft missile fired from a base along the Line of Control. Despite extensive aerial and land search efforts by both civilian and military teams in the vicinity of Nanga Parbat, an 8,000-meter-high (26,000 ft) mountain, no trace of the aircraft was found.
To this day, the fate of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 remains unresolved, continuing to intrigue and baffle investigators.
