The World - News from Aug. 27, 1989

Military and civilian aircraft backed by ground troops scanned remote areas of the Himalayas for a second day but found no trace of a Pakistani airliner missing with 54 people on board. Officials of the state-run Pakistan International Airlines in Islamabad said the search was suspended overnight for the PIA Fokker-27 that disappeared early Friday shortly after taking off from the resort city of Gilgit on a 190-mile flight to Islamabad. On board the missing plane were 49 passengers, including five infants, and five crew members. Among the passengers were two foreigners, American journalist Paul McGorrian and a woman identified on the passenger list only as Sibrys, nationality unknown.