Airline Sacrifices Goat On Runway For Safe Landing of Aircraft

Officials of the airline performing the sacrifice.

Just another day in Pakistan? We don't know. But look at the smiles of Pakistan International Airlines officials as they behead a black goat on the airport runway. They committed the deed right before a plane took off for from Islamabad to Multan.

A fleet of planes has been grounded and assigned for examination after a PIA plane PK-661 crashed near Havelian on a Chitral to Islamabad fligh, killing 47 passengers onboard including singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed and Osama Ahmed Warraich, the deputy commissioner of Chitral.

The order to sacrifice the goat apparently came from the Director of Engineering, after examining a plane, which went on to safely land at its scheduled destination. The move was to appease passengers and pilots, and is apparently a local practice  to 'ward off the evil eye'.