KARACHI  - A PIA statement here on Wednesday maintained that ‘the happenings to PIA flight PK-787 of November 18 have been dramatised and sensationalized by the media to extract mileage’.“This is to put them in the correct perspective,” the PIA statement added. It said that all airline pilots are trained to safely fly and land an airplane following an engine failure during the critical phase of taking off. This proficiency is checked on full flight simulators every six months.It said that the left engine of PK-787 failed after take off when climbing through 1200 feet. It suffered an engine stall, likely due to an internal malfunction. “A stalled engine behaves like a badly tuned back-firing car engine. It produces loud bangs and sparks like a back-firing car engine. A stalled jet engine sometimes can behave and run normally when power is reduced, as it did on this particular flight.” The pilots reduced engine power, and the stalling stopped. They completed required procedures and landed back at Karachi where a replacement airplane was available.To summarise the facts: The engine was never on fire, as media reported, it simply stalled due to internal reasons which will be investigated. The engine was not even shut down by the crew. Only its power was reduced. The pilots landed the airplane with both engines running, after completing their procedures, the PIA statement added.It said that a review of the recorded flight data reveals normal, legitimate handling of the airplane. All data and investigation of the engine stall reasons will be shared with the Civil Aviation Authority, as is required by the regulations.  The pilots did what they are trained and paid to do safely fly an airplane in all normal or non normal situations. “Hopefully the ill informed and technically incorrect portrayal of the events of flight 787 will cease with this clarification,” the PIA statement maintained.