A plane carrying five crew members mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Pakistan this week.
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The flight was bound for Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, when it descended rapidly and lost contact with air traffic controllers.
The Boeing 737 vanished off the radar at 9:21 PM local time on Tuesday, July 7, the Pakistan Airports Authority wrote in a
statement.Following an extensive 12-hour search, Pakistani authorities located the cargo plane that went missing while flying over the Arabian Sea.
Authorities said it was recovered 53 nautical miles south of Ormara, a port city on Pakistan's Arabian coast.
The K2 Airways Boeing 737 disappeared from radar about 80 minutes into its two-hour flight from Sharjah, UAE, to Karachi, Pakistan.
Data from Flightradar24 placed the freighter in a drop of about 5,000 feet in less than a minute, followed by a climb of roughly 6,000 feet in 30 seconds and then a steep dive from 36,550 feet towards sea level.
Typically, an aircraft does not descend faster than 3,000 feet per minute.
Three minutes before crashing, the pilots reported a "navigational system issue" and were guided by air traffic control in Karachi, the
