Tragedy Over Arabian Sea: K2 Airways Freighter Flight KTA1732 Crashes

Aljaweea are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of K2 Airways Flight KTA1732 over the Arabian Sea on 7 July 2026.

In Memoriam: The Crew of Flight KTA1732

As the investigation progresses, our condolences go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of the five Pakistani aviation professionals and crew members who perished in the line of duty: 

• Captain Muhammad Rizwan Idris: A seasoned aviator with an ATPL and B737 type rating, possessing an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 total flight hours.
• First Officer Faisal Jatoi: A respected figure in the Pakistani aviation community, former Captain, and 2020–2022 PALPA General Secretary candidate, with an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 flight hours.
• Flight Engineers Muhammad Hamid and Muhammad Arif Siddiqui: PCAA-certified Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (AMEs) with decades of experience. Dispatched to Sharjah to audit and sign off on the complex maintenance work from the aircraft’s recent grounding.
• Loadmaster Muhammad Taufiq Khan: An aviation logistics expert with years of experience calculating critical trim sheets and managing weight and balance (W&B) parameters.

Telemetry Data: Navigational Failure and LOC-I Event

Licensed in May 2018, Karachi-based private cargo carrier K2 Airways operated the 27-year-old Boeing 737-400 freighter (AP-BOI). This was its first flight after a 5- to 10-day maintenance grounding in Sharjah.

On an empty Sharjah-to-Karachi ferry flight at 35,000 feet, a navigational system failure was reported at 16:18 UTC (20:18 UAE local time), leading to a complex 3-minute Loss of Control In-flight (LOC-I) event.

Telemetry data shows extreme aerodynamic fluctuations: a 5,000-foot plunge, a violent surge to 36,550 feet, a high-altitude stall, and a near-vertical dive reaching -22,400 feet per minute, with the last data point at 1,100 feet. The crew’s final transmission—“rolling or floating”—suggests intense spatial disorientation or severe flight control failure.

Wreckage was located 53 nautical miles south of Ormara, but recovering the black boxes from depths of 3,000 meters remains difficult. This tragedy underscores the necessity of post-maintenance oversight and continuous airworthiness for legacy regional cargo fleets.

May they rest in peace.