AP-AAH Douglas DC-3
(c/n 12089)
Pakistan International Airlines had been
founded in 1951 as a branch of the Pakistani Government
although first services were not flown under that name until
1954. AP-AAH was the former VT-CPH
which had been operated by Orient Airways. This image was
acquired from a PIA postcard issued in
in
1956. By that time the fleet had been white-topped.
AP-AAH was lost on a flight from Peshawar
to
Chitral in the high Himalayan country when it flew into the mountains
near the 9000 ft level over
Lowery Pass.