06/17/2025
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The iconic 1979 Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) magazine advertisement featuring a Boeing jet silhouette over the World Trade Center.
What you’re seeing is the genuine 1979 PIA magazine advertisement, striking in its design and historically significant for PIA’s international route strategy. The uncanny resemblance to later tragic events is purely coincidental—but it makes this piece a fascinating artifact of aviation and advertising history.
The ad was created to promote PIA’s direct flight to New York using striking imagery to associate its service with the city’s iconic Twin Towers. It originally appeared in print magazines on 19 March 1979, well before the tragic events of 2001 .