{{Short description|Airline from Pakistan, 1948–1949}} {{EngvarB|date=April 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}} '''Pakistan Airways''' also known as "'''Pak Air'''" or "'''Pak Airways'''", was an airline from [[Pakistan]]<ref name="baaa">[http://www.baaa-acro.com/Compagnies%20P/PakAir.htm Pak Air] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927071819/http://www.baaa-acro.com/Compagnies%20P/PakAir.htm |date=27 September 2011 }} Retrieved 3 November 2010.</ref> with its headquarters in [[Islamabad]]. The company was founded in 1948 and ceased operations in 1949 following a series of air accidents.<ref name="aviation"/>
==Accidents== The airline was involved in four air crashes:<ref name="baaa"/> * 9 May 1948 at [[Basra]], Iraq. No fatalities.<ref name="baaa" /> * 10 May 1948 at [[Basra]], Iraq. No fatalities.<ref name="baaa" /> * 26 November 1948: First air crash of a Pakistani airline in the country, near [[Vehari]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]] in which 21 people,<ref>[http://www.pakistanpaedia.com/hist/pak_years/pak_hist1.htm 1947–1958 Birth and Turmoil] Pakistan Paedia. Retrieved 3 November 2010.</ref> 5 crew and 16 passengers were killed.<ref name="aviation">[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19481126-0 Accident Description] Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 3 November 2010.</ref> Aircraft: [[Douglas Aircraft Company|Douglas]] C-47A-15-DK<ref name="aviation"/> Registration: AP-ACE. Cause: believed to be technical error.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120314081855/http://news.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/little-hope-air-crash-probe-report-will-be-made-public-280 Little hope air crash probe report will be made public] Dawn 2 August 2010. Retrieved 3 November 2010.</ref> * 12 December 1949 at Karachi. 26 fatalities. Aircraft: Douglas. Registration: AP-ADI<ref name="baaa"/>
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{{Airlines of Pakistan}}
[[Category:Defunct airlines of Pakistan]] [[Category:Airlines established in 1948]] [[Category:Airlines disestablished in 1949]] [[Category:1949 disestablishments in Pakistan]] [[Category:Pakistani companies established in 1948]]