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A Pakistani cargo plane with five crew members aboard went missing over the Arabian Sea late on July 7, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran.
The 27-year-old Boeing 737-400, operated by K2 Airways, reported a navigational system issue at 21:18 Pakistan Standard Time (16:18 GMT) while flying toward the port city of Karachi, Pakistan Airports Authority said in a statement posted to Facebook.
The authority added that air traffic controllers tried to guide the aircraft but three minutes later, radar systems showed the aircraft descending rapidly and communication was lost.
The plane was flying about 155 nautical miles west of Karachi in southern Pakistan when it disappeared, according to the statement.
Flight-tracking service Flightradar24 said on X that preliminary data points to a possible crash in the Arabian Sea southwest of Karachi.
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The incident came amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, which was accused of attacking three vessels, including a Qatari liquified natural gas tankers and a Saudi oil supertanker, close to the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day. Drones were reportedly used in the attacks.
It’s worth noting that the U.S. Navy currently has a large presence in Arabian Sea, including two aircraft carrier strikes groups and two marine expeditionary units.
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