Two corpses were left behind at a New York airport instead of being flown to Lahore, Pakistan’s national airline said, apologising Wednesday for the latest embarrassing mishap to hit the troubled carrier. Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chairman Musharraf Rasool Cyan has ordered an inquiry into the oversight, a company spokesman told AFP. PIA “regrets the inconvenience caused due to negligence… and expresses its sympathies with the family members of the deceased persons,” a spokesman for the airline said in a statement. Domestic flights are often delayed for VIPs while flight employees have been caught smuggling goods ranging from iPhones to narcotics. Last year two airline employees were killed at Karachi airport during a nine-day strike spurred by plans to privatise the national carrier.

Source: Egypt Independent November 01, 2017 08:48 UTC