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A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) commercial airliner Airbus A320, flying from Lahore to Karachi, crashed in a residential area near the Karachi airport on Friday, just a few kilometers away from the landing runway. The fate of all 91 passengers and eight crew members on flight PK-8303 is not known as of now, while rescue operations are underway.
Following is a chronology of major air crashes in Pakistan or involving Pakistani planes:
1965
May 20, 1965
A PIA Boeing 707 crashes on its inaugural flight while attempting to land at Cairo airport, killing 124 people.
1970
August 6, 1970
A PIA Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashes while attempting to take off from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people on board.
1972
December 8, 1972
A PIA Fokker F27 crashes in Rawalpindi. All 26 people on board are killed.
1979
November 26, 1979
A PIA Boeing 707 bringing home Pakistani Haj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia crashes shortly after take-off from Jeddah airport, killing 156 people.
1986
October 23, 1986
A PIA Fokker F27 crashes while coming in to land in Peshawar, killing 13 of the 54 people on board.
1988
August 17, 1988
A US-made Hercules C-130 military aircraft crashes near Bahawalpur, killing military ruler General Mohammad Zia ul Haq and 30 others including Pakistani generals and the US ambassador.
1989
August 25, 1989
A PIA Fokker carrying 54 people disappears after leaving Gilgit. The wreckage is never found.
1992
September 28, 1992
A PIA Airbus A300 crashes into a cloud-covered hillside on approach to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu after the plane descended too early, killing 167 people.
2003 (2)
February 19, 2003
An air force Fokker F27 crashes in fog-shrouded mountains near Kohat, killing Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali, his wife and 15 others.
February 24, 2003
A chartered Cessna 402-B carrying Afghan Mines and Industries Minister Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, four Afghan officials, a Chinese mining executive and two Pakistani crew crashes into the Arabian Sea near Karachi.
2006
July 10, 2006
A PIA Fokker F27 bound for Lahore crashes into a field and bursts into flames shortly after takeoff from Multan, killing 41 passengers and four crew.
2010 (3)
July 28, 2010
An Airblue Airbus 321 operated by the private airline Airblue flying from Karachi crashes into hills outside Islamabad while preparing to land, killing all 152 people on board.
November 5, 2010
A twin-engine plane operated by Pakistani charter JS Air carrying staff from an Italian oil company crashes shortly after take-off in Karachi, killing all 21 people on board.
November 28, 2010
At least 12 people are killed when a Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane operated by Georgian airline Sunway crashes in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi.
2012
April 20, 2012
A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 from Karachi comes down in bad weather near Islamabad, killing 121 passengers and 6 crew members.
2015
May 8, 2015
A Pakistani military helicopter crashes, killing eight people including the Norwegian, Philippine and Indonesian envoys and the wives of Malaysian and Indonesian envoys, and setting a school building ablaze in a remote valley near Gilgit.
2016
December 7, 2016
A PIA ATR-42 aircraft crashes enroute from Chitral to Islamabad. The crash claims lives of all 48 passengers and crew, including singer-cum-evangelist Junaid Jamshed.
2020
May 22, 2020
A PIA Airbus A320 crashes near the Karachi Airport while completing a journey from Lahore. A total of 91 passengers, besides 8 crew members, were on board the aircraft.
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کراچی ایئرپورٹ کو مین ٹرمینل جہاں ہم سی اوف کرنے جاتے ہیں |
کراچی ائیرپورٹ کا رن وے اور آبادی کے درمیان فاصلہ جہاں سے جہاز عام طور پر کراچی میں لینڈ کرتے ہیں |
باہر زوم کر کے دیکھیں کتنا آبادی کے بیچوں بیچ ہے کراچی ائیرپورٹ |
جاپان کا میازاکی ائیرپورٹ، جہاں لینڈ اور ٹیک اوف کرنے کی جگہ کو خالی رکھا گیا ہے |
ممبئی جیسا شہر جہاں مذید انسانوں کے رہنے کے لیئے جگہ نہیں وہاں بھی کس طرح علاقے کو مینج کیا گیا ہے کہ ٹیک اوف کی جگہ کو خالی رکھا گیا ہے |
Mumbai-Juhu Airport is located in Juhu, an upmarket residential suburb of Mumbai, India. It is used by small General Aviation aircraft and helicopters. |
سائوتھ کوریا کا انچوائین انٹرنیشنل ائیرپورٹ اسی وجہ سے آبادی سے دور بنایا گیا ہے |
ویسے میرا شک ہے (دعا کرتا ہوں ایسا نہ ہو)
ہوسکتا ہے کہ میں غلط ہوں اور یہ صرف شک ہو مگر بات یہ ہے کہ PIA کو degrade کرنے کی کوشش بھی ہوسکتی ہے، کیونکہ ویسے بھی بہت سارے عوامل کی پسندیدگی کے برخلاف پاکستان میں لاک ڈاون کو نرم کیا گیا ہے جس کی وجہ سے بہت سارے stakeholders خوش نہیں تھے، اسی لیئے اس حادثہ میں beneficieries کو enlist کریں تو صاف پتہ چل جائے گا کہ کون کون سے عناصر تھے جن کو PIA کے اس حادثہ سے فائدہ ہوا اور حکومت وقت سے اپنی بات منوانے کا ایک مہرہ ہاتھ لگ گیا۔Share
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The risks of social isolation
According to a 2018 national survey by Cigna, loneliness levels have reached an all-time high, with nearly half of 20,000 U.S. adults reporting they sometimes or always feel alone. Forty percent of survey participants also reported they sometimes or always feel that their relationships are not meaningful and that they feel isolated.Such numbers are alarming because of the health and mental health risks associated with loneliness. According to a meta-analysis co-authored by Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D., a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, a lack of social connection heightens health risks as much as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or having alcohol use disorder. She’s also found that loneliness and social isolation are twice as harmful to physical and mental health as obesity (Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2015).
"There is robust evidence that social isolation and loneliness significantly increase the risk for premature mortality, and the magnitude of the risk exceeds that of many leading health indicators," HoltLunstad says.
To stem such health risks, campaigns and coalitions to reduce social isolation and loneliness—an individual’s perceived level of social isolation—have been launched in Australia, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. These national programs bring together research experts, nonprofit and government agencies, community groups, and skilled volunteers to raise awareness of loneliness and address social isolation through evidence-based interventions and advocacy.
But is loneliness really increasing, or is it a condition that humans have always experienced at various times of life? In other words, are we becoming lonelier or just more inclined to recognize and talk about the problem?
These are tough questions to answer because historical data about loneliness are scant. Still, some research suggests that social isolation is increasing, so loneliness maybe, too, says Holt-Lunstad. The most recent U.S. census data, for example, show that more than a quarter of the population lives alone—the highest rate ever recorded. Also, more than half of the population is unmarried, and marriage rates and the number of children per household have declined since the previous census. Rates of volunteerism have also decreased, according to research by the University of Maryland’s Do Good Institute, and an increasing percentage of Americans report no religious affiliation—suggesting declines in the kinds of religious and other institutional connections that can provide a community.
"Regardless of whether loneliness is increasing or remaining stable, we have lots of evidence that a significant portion of the population is affected by it," says HoltLunstad. "Being connected to others socially is widely considered a fundamental human need—crucial to both well-being and survival."
As experts in behavior change, psychologists are well-positioned to help the nation combat loneliness. Through their research and public policy work, many psychologists have been providing data and detailed recommendations for advancing social connection as a U.S. public health priority on both the societal and individual levels.
"With an increasing aging population, the effects of loneliness on public health are only anticipated to increase," Holt-Lunstad says. "The challenge we face now is figuring out what can be done about it."
Who is most likely?
Loneliness is an experience that has been around since the beginning of time—and we all deal with it, according to Ami Rokach, Ph.D., an instructor at York University in Canada and a clinical psychologist. "It’s something every single one of us deals with from time to time," he explains, and can occur during life transitions such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or a move to a new place. This kind of loneliness is referred to by researchers as reactive loneliness.Problems can arise, however, when an experience of loneliness becomes chronic, Rokach notes. "If reactive loneliness is painful, chronic loneliness is torturous," he says. Chronic loneliness is most likely to set in when individuals either don’t have the emotional, mental or financial resources to get out and satisfy their social needs or they lack a social circle that can provide these benefits, says psychologist Louise Hawkley, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at the research organization NORC at the University of Chicago.
"That’s when things can become very problematic, and when many of the major negative health consequences of loneliness can set in," she says.
Last year, a Pew Research Center survey of more than 6,000 U.S. adults linked frequent loneliness to dissatisfaction with one’s family, social, and community life. About 28 percent of those dissatisfied with their family life feel lonely all or most of the time, compared with just 7 percent of those satisfied with their family life. Satisfaction with one’s social life follows a similar pattern: 26 percent of those dissatisfied with their social lives are frequently lonely, compared with just 5 percent of those who are satisfied with their social lives. One in five Americans who say they are not satisfied with the quality of life in their local communities feel frequent loneliness, roughly triple the 7 percent of Americans who are satisfied with the quality of life in their communities.
And, of course, loneliness can occur when people are surrounded by others—on the subway, in a classroom, or even with their spouses and children, according to Rokach, who adds that loneliness is not synonymous with chosen isolation or solitude. Rather, loneliness is defined by people’s levels of satisfaction with their connectedness, or their perceived social isolation.