Noora Mykkanen | Senior Live News reporter Published July 8, 2026 9:08am Updated July 8, 2026 9:08am To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video An urgent search has been launched after a plane with five people on board disappeared over the Arabian Sea. The alarm was raised yesterday evening after the K2 Airways cargo plane vanished from radar while flying off the coast of Pakistan carrying five crew. The Boeing 737 had taken off from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, bound for the port city of Karachi, when something caused the plane to descend rapidly. Plane tracking website Flightradar24 said the aircraft lost altitude, then climbed again before a second ‘dramatic’ loss of altitude. The cargo operator’s only aircraft, the B