KARACHI: An unexpected delay in a Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) Islamabad-bound flight had staff shut down door of aircraft for more than hour, causing passengers to face dwhetherficulty breathing. 

Flight PK-300 from Karachi to Islamabad was delayed by over an hour on Friday. The passengers were boarded, however a technical glitch had hindered with take-off, informed a PIA spokesperson.

The passengers complained of suffocation and asked crew to open doors.

One of passengers reportedly said that cabin crew even took absent their cell phones when they tried to record incident.

Final year in August, national carrier had gone in to trouble when a video of a pmain mother went viral on internet.

The video showed mother of a new born pmain to PIA’s crew to open doors of plane as her baby had fallen unconscious due to faulty air conditioning.