Islamabad (Staff Report/Agencies): Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday clarified that no Israeli aircraft entered Pakistani airspace or landed at any of its airport.
According to a spokesperson of the civil aviation authority, the reports in this regard are totally baseless.
Civil Aviation Authority has categorically rejected any news regarding landing of Israeli Plane in Pakistan.#Israel #CAA pic.twitter.com/7HZLjvq1J0
— Govt of Pakistan (@pid_gov) October 27, 2018
On October 25, An Israeli journalist sparked a storm of rumours on social media when he tweeted that an aircraft flew from Tel Aviv and landed in Islamabad.
Israeli ???????? bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, #Pakistan ????????, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV.
— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 25, 2018
Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman
M-ULTI glex pic.twitter.com/haHn1NU73L
In his twitter message, Avi Scharf, editor of Israeli newspaper Haaretz, said that the alleged plane did not directly fly from Tel Aviv but it made a brief stopover at Amman and then landed in Islamabad.
Earlier on Saturday, Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry responded to a tweet by former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal who sought explanation quoting the report of BBC on the landing of an alleged ‘Israeli aircraft’ in Islamabad.
Fawad Chaudhry responded to Iqbal’s tweet saying that the government would neither hold any secret dialogue with India nor Israel.
“The reality is that Imran Khan is not Nawaz Sharif nor his cabinet has fake Aristotles like you. We will neither hold any secret dialogue with Modi nor Israel,” the minister replied in Urdu.
“If you were so worried about Pakistan as you pretend to be, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Don’t show fake worry, Pakistan is in safe hands,” Chaudhry lashed out at the former minister.
حقیقی صورتحال یہ ہے کہ عمران خان نواز شریف ہے نہ اس کی کابینہ میں آپ جیسے جعلی ارسطو ہیں، ہم نہ مودی جی سے خفیہ مذاکرات کریں گے نہ اسرائیل سے، آپ کو پاکستان کی اتنی فکر ہوتی جتنی ظاہر کر رہے ہیں تو آج ہم ان حالات میں نہ ہوتے، اس لئے جعلی فکر نہ کریں ،پاکستان محفوظ ہاتھوں میں ہے https://t.co/JUtbZQbArj
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 27, 2018
Not satisfied with the federal minister’s explanation, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Ahsan Iqbal tweeted that the way information minister got so angry over asking for explanation shows that there is something wrong.
جس انداز میں وزیر اطلاعات محض وضاحت مانگنے پر آگ بھگولہ ہوئے ہیں اس سے تو یہی لگتا ہے کہ دال میں کچھ کالا ضرور ہے- https://t.co/SDluVgPx8O
— Ahsan Iqbal (@betterpakistan) October 27, 2018
Meanwhile, in a further series of tweets, the Israeli journalist clarified that he was not 100 per cent sure if the plane landed in Islamabad.
Israeli ???????? bizjet flew from TLV to Islamabad, #Pakistan ????????, on the ground 10 hours, and back to TLV.
— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 25, 2018
Cleared flight-plan with usual 5min groundtime trick in Amman
M-ULTI glex pic.twitter.com/haHn1NU73L
Avi Scharf said that the plane, after taking off from Tel Aviv and making a stopover in Amman, switched over to a different air traffic control (ATC) frequency and overflew the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 27, 2018
Re-appeared (24Oct, 00:40 UTC) descending into Islamabad, still sqwk 0757 and type. Desc to 20K feet, and then lost track again
After 10 hours (11:20 UTC), re-appeared heading SW from Islamabad, continued same track back to Amman, then TLV
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He added that the aircraft’s track was lost over the Gulf of Oman and it later reappeared on descending towards Islamabad using the same ATC frequency.
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— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 27, 2018
I DONT know who OWNS it ("Multibird Overseas Ltd" in isle of man), or who FLEW on it ■ I DONT have 100% confirm landed Islamabad, because it lost track (not enought flightradar24 receivers there) ■ However, no reason to desc 40K to 20K if continuing north to Kashmir..
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After descending to 20,000 feet from an altitude of 40,000 feet, disappeared from the flight tracking website again. It later reappeared 10 hours later heading south-west from Islamabad on the same track back to Amman and then to Tel Aviv.
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— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 27, 2018
or China. Mountains very high there (15K+)
■ And it has NO relation WHATSOEVER to Netanyahu flight to Oman on Oct25th
Tnx for following!! Have a great weekend!!
According to BBC Urdu, the alleged Israeli aircraft was a Canadian manufactured Bombardier Global Express with the serial number 9394.
It was registered on February 22. 2017, in the self-governing British territory of Isle of Man. It is registered to a company called Multibird Overseas Ltd.
This is pertinent to mention that Pakistan and Israel do not have diplomatic relations. Therefore, airplanes registered in either country are not allowed to enter each other’s airspace.
