Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 (Urdu: پی آئی اے پرواز 404) was a Fokker F27 Friendship that disappeared shortly after takeoff on 25 August 1989.

[1] At 07:36, the flight took off from the northern city of Gilgit, Pakistan on its way to the national capital Islamabad.

It is speculated that the civilian aircraft was deliberately shot down by the Indian Army with an anti-aircraft missile, fired from a base along the Line of Control.

[2] The aircraft was a Fokker F27-200 Friendship turboprop airliner, serial number 10207, built in 1962 and registered as AP-BBF.

Later, land search parties were organized, comprising civilian and armed forces personnel.