K2 Airways cargo plane crashes into Arabian Sea with five crew aboard

Around 9 pm on July 7, 2026, a K2 Airways Boeing 737 cargo plane took off from Sharjah bound for Karachi. It never landed.

The aircraft, registration AP-BOI, was a 737-4M0(BDSF) freighter about 27 years old. Five crew were on board: pilot-in-command Mohammad Rizwan Idrees, first officer Faisal Mehmood, load master Mohammad Toufique Khan, and engineers Arif Siddiqui and Mohammad Hamid.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the flight near 9:21 pm local time, when the plane was roughly 155 nautical miles from Karachi. The last ADS-B position data showed the aircraft at 1,100 feet and dropping at around 22,400 feet per minute. That was the last anyone heard.

The Pakistan Navy and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency launched a search operation in the Arabian Sea. On July 8, search teams found wreckage about 53 nautical miles south of Ormara port on Pakistan's Makran coast. All five crew members remained missing.

Rough seas were hampering efforts to recover debris and search for survivors, according to authorities. The cause of the crash had not been determined.