Pakistani passenger plane carrying 98 people crashes in Karachi

Pakistani passenger plane carrying 

98 people crashes in Karachi


Jet carrying 91 passengers and seven crew members comes down in residential areas

The plane crash in pakistani karachi the plane consist of about 98 pessengers which were then saved.

There are fears of mass casualties after a passenger aircraft carrying 98 people crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) jet, carrying 91 passengers and seven crew members, was on its final approach to Karachi airport when it went down in a residential area in the Model Colony neighbourhood and disappeared from radar. There were reports of multiple casualties on the ground.

Meeran Yousuf, the media coordinator for the Sindh health minister, told the Guardian at least three people on the plane had survived: the Bank of Punjabpresident, Zafar Masud, who is “out of danger” in hospital, and another two passengers, Mohammed Zubair and Tahira Mahmoud.

Plane crash footage in pakistan

“The rescue operation is still continuing, with a focus on finding more bodies.”

Saying anything right now would be premature,” said Abdullah Hafeez, a PIA spokesman. “Our crew is trained to handle emergency landings. All my prayers are with the families. We will continue to provide information in a transparent manner.”

We are proceeding direct, sir – we have lost engine,” a pilot can be heard saying.

“Confirm your attempt on belly,” the air traffic controller said, offering a runway.

“Sir – mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday Pakistan 8303,” the pilot said before the transmission ended.

In a statement, the PIA chief executive, Arshad Malik, said he was visiting the site of the crash and would further investigate the technical issue reported by the pilot.

Flight PK8303 was on a domestic journey from Lahore and was minutes from Jinnah international airport when it crashed at about 2.45pm local time (1045 BST). Video footage shows billowing black smoke and people running screaming from the crash site.

Saad Edhi, spokesperson of the Edhi Foundation who were helping in the rescue effort, said they had moved 35 bodies from the site of the crash to different hospitals.

The plane fell in a populated residential area and at least five houses caught fire. A schoolteacher working nearby said she had heard a “huge crash – it felt like doomsday. I saw smoke rising from the next street.”


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