Late on Tuesday night, a Boeing 737 crashed into the Arabian Sea. There’s no such thing as a straightforward aviation accident, and the circumstances surrounding this are particularly strange — the pilots reported navigation issues, and moments later the plane start descending rapidly, only to then climb rapidly, before finally plunging over six miles, and going “missing.”
The plane took off from the United Arab Emirates at 8:02PM Pakistani standard time, and was supposed to operate a routine 730-mile to Pakistan. The first roughly 75 minutes of the flight were believed to be routine.
However, the problems started at around 9:18PM, while the plane was around 180 miles from Karachi. At that point, the pilots reported to air traffic control that they were having navigational system issues.
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