On October 23, 1986, Pakistan International Airlines Flight PK-672, a Fokker F-27 aircraft (Registration AP-AUX) operating a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Lahore to Peshawar with 54 souls on board, crashed approximately 2.5 nautical miles short of the threshold of Runway 35 at Peshawar International Airport. During the V.O.R. let-down procedure, the flight crew reported ground tracer fire roughly two miles to their left; though it was not affecting the flight, the Captain turned off all external aircraft lights and elected to continue the approach. At 20:49:31.5 P.S.T., only 4.3 seconds after confirming their final landing clearance, the aircraft struck the ground at 120 to 125 knots, bouncing back into the air before pitching nose-down sharply, skidding, and coming to rest entirely inverted. The impact resulted in fatal injuries to the Captain, the flying Co-pilot under route-check, a flight steward, an air hostess, and nine passengers, while an observer Co-pilot and 27 passengers survived with various injuries. The official investigation concluded that the cause of the accident was "Human Failure" stemming from the flying crew's failure to monitor their altitude after descending through the Minimum Descent Altitude of 400 feet, compounded by the Captain's failure to assume operational control as he became distracted trying to verbally guide the Co-pilot through correcting his approach radial.
