AP-BGG at Manchester - 31st December 2002

            PIA Boeing 747-300 AP-BGG touches down on Runway 24R at Manchester Airport on 31st December 2002. Delivered new to Cathay Pacific Airlines as VR-HON in July 1988 and re-registered as B-HON in 1997 the aircraft remained with the Hong Kong flag carrier until June 2002 when it was sold to Pakistan International Airlines and registered AP-BGG. The Pakistani flag carrier would operate the aircraft until 2012 when it was withdrawn and stored in Karachi, the aircraft would not be broken up for a few years with it finally succumbing to the scrap-man in June 2015.

The aircraft sports my second favourite of the PIA liveries, I preferred the classic 1980s-1990s green and white livery but found this a very suitiable replacement. PIA would after a short while alter the livery with a new tail design, sadly PIA, a once familiar sight at Manchester have been banned for quite some time and right now I'd take any livery if it meant they came back...

It was a very misty day so I have ran a few filters on this image to tidy it up somewhat.

© Phil Cribbin 2002

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