Some of the funniest (and most dangerous) things find their origin in Pakistan. Be it reporter Chand Nawab, or the most recent 'Gor-mint' aunty, news from Pakistan have given us enough reasons to laugh out loud. But this one is a bit too much, we remain undecided whether to laugh or cry on this.

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Pakistan's national carrier somehow managed to make a mockery of all these and had as many as seven passengers aboard standing on the aisles during a routine flight from Karachi to Madinah.

The incident which happened on January 20th had the passengers standing throughout the three-hour flight after they overbooked passengers.

The flight PK-743, a Boeing 777 aircraft has a seating capacity of 409 passengers but on the day of the flight it had 416 people onboard.

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According to Dawn News, the boarding passes issued to the extra passengers were hand-written and not computer-generated and the computer-generated list, provided to the aircraft crew by the ground traffic staff, did not mention the excess passengers.

The report said that the air hostess informed the captain about the extra passengers, but was told to adjust them.

"I had already taken off and the air hostess did not inform me about extra passengers before closing the aircraft door. Therefore after takeoff immediate landing back at Karachi was not possible as it required a lot of fuel dumping, which was not in the interest of the airline,” Capt Anwer Adil, who operated that flight said in a statement.

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Despite the action which could have ended in a disaster onboard, the Civil Aviation Authority has not taken punitive action against the airline or its staffers.