A Pakistani plane carrying 47 people
crashed Wednesday on a domestic flight
from the mountainous northern city of
Chitral to Islamabad, aviation authorities
said.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Flight
PK661 crashed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
province, the civil aviation authority told
AFP.
An earlier airline statement said the ATR-42
turboprop aircraft had lost contact en route
from Chitral.
“A plane has crashed and locals told us
that it is on fire,” said Saeed Wazir, a
senior local police official.
“Police and rescue officials are on the way
but have yet not reached on site.”
The plane came down near the town of
Havelian in Abbottabad district in the
province.
Pakistan’s last major air disaster was in
2015 when a Pakistani military helicopter
crashed in a remote northern valley, killing
eight people including the Norwegian,
Philippine and Indonesian envoys and the
wives of Malaysian and Indonesian envoys.
The deadliest crash was in 2010, when an
Airbus 321 operated by private airline
Airblue and flying from Karachi crashed
into hills outside Islamabad while about to
land, killing all 152 on board.
The accident was blamed on a confused
captain and a hostile cockpit atmosphere in
an official report.
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