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Shangrila Resort – Skardu
DC – 3 Aircraft
Pc:.................. Imran Hameed
On October 13th, 1950 a DC-3 aircraft (AAF) that belonged to Orient Airways – now Pakistan International Airways (PIA), crash-landed after three minutes of taking off in Skardu. All of the crew and passengers survived – including famous author James Albert Michener.
A resident of Skardu, the late Brig. (Retd.) Mohammed Aslam Khan was greatly inspired by James Hilton’s fiction novel “Lost Horizon.” In the story, an airplane crashes near a river bed. The surviving passengers came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple to seek their help, and they took them to a beautiful lamasery which was filled with fruits.
The blissful place was called Shangrila in the story, a Chinese word meaning “heaven on earth”.
He obtained some land close to a lake called Kachura and planted an orchid full of numerous types of fruit. He then bought the crashed plane from Orient airways for Rs. 150 and it took him three months along with hundreds of men, horses, and bullocks to move it to its present location.
DC – 3 Aircraft
Pc:.................. Imran Hameed
On October 13th, 1950 a DC-3 aircraft (AAF) that belonged to Orient Airways – now Pakistan International Airways (PIA), crash-landed after three minutes of taking off in Skardu. All of the crew and passengers survived – including famous author James Albert Michener.
A resident of Skardu, the late Brig. (Retd.) Mohammed Aslam Khan was greatly inspired by James Hilton’s fiction novel “Lost Horizon.” In the story, an airplane crashes near a river bed. The surviving passengers came across some Buddhist monks from a nearby temple to seek their help, and they took them to a beautiful lamasery which was filled with fruits.
The blissful place was called Shangrila in the story, a Chinese word meaning “heaven on earth”.
He obtained some land close to a lake called Kachura and planted an orchid full of numerous types of fruit. He then bought the crashed plane from Orient airways for Rs. 150 and it took him three months along with hundreds of men, horses, and bullocks to move it to its present location.
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