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Thank you to keeps for sponsoring this video. Stay tuned till the end of the video to learn more about them. This is the story of shaheen air international flight 142. Shaheen air was pakistans second largest airline key word was. At the peak of its popularity it was only second to pakistans flag carrier, pakistan international airlines. The airline mainly focused on domestic routes and a few routes to the middle east. The flight that we’re interested in, flight 142 was a domestic flight from Karachi to lahore. On the 22nd of april 2012 the captain and the first officer reached the flight operations center at karachi airport for flight 142, but they were running a bit late and so they rushed through the preflight briefings and meetings. But before they left the first officer got a weather report for Lahore. It was bad news, the visibility was trending down. But the weather at karachi was good so they decided to continue with the flight. Once in the cockpit the captain gave a short briefing about the takeoff and the taxi routes but interestingly he mentioned nothing about the weather at the destination.

At 3:08 am UTC the plane took off from Karachi bound for Lahore, as soon as it took off it started its climb to 33,000 feet. An hour went by and the plane was starting to near lahore, it was at this point that the crew needed to make a critical go no go call. The weather at lahore was pretty bad so they needed to decide on whether or not they wanted to divert to peshawar their alternate. After a bit of deliberation the pilots decided to head for lahore their intended destination, the last thing the pilots wanted was a plane full of annoyed passengers.
At 3:59 am flight 142 was cleared by lahore ACC to perform a vor dme approach to runway 36L but the captain wanted to use runway 36R, his request was denied because the runway was being upgraded to a cat three system. As the pilots prepped for the approach they got some bad weather news from the ground. “ Lahore weather warning for poor visibility due mist up till 0700E and present visibility 1200 meters”. They were having doubts about their decision to land at lahore. But lets talk about their approach thought the pilots were planning on carrying out a very unconventional approach. They planned to use the ILS of runway 36R , the runway that they were denied to line up with the runway and once they had the runways in sight they would line up with runway 36L. I mean theyre jumping through a lot of hoops to avoid flying that VOR DME approach. As the approach was being conducted the first officer tried to hail sialkot on the radio twice, without success to get weather information from there. Their alternate airport, peshawar was 50 minutes away and sialkot was a closer alternative but sialkot never responded.

As all of this was happening the captain wanted to make an RNAV approach to the runway. but this aircraft lacked the necessary hardware to make an RNAV approach , in addition to the fact that choosing an rnav approach at this stage was against recommended procedures.
A lot is happening in the cockpit as of right now, the captain is aksing for something that he shouldnt the first officer is trying to get in touch with an airport and then the first officer discovered something shocking. The captain had programmed the flight management guidance computer to land on runway 18L instead of runway 36L.

Once the plane was in contact with lahore approach the captain told the controllers that they were making an RNAV approach to runway 36L, apparently he had decided not to carry out the VOR DME approach. At 4:20 am lahore approach noticed that the plane was about 2000 feet