AirBlue Commercial Aircraft Crashes in Islamabad
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At least 25 killed in passenger plane crash in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Rescue workers have recovered the dead bodies of at least 25 people from the wreckage of an Airblue passenger plane which crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday, an official said.
So far, rescue people have recovered at least 25 dead bodies, Ramzan Sajid, a spokesman for Islamabad's Capital Development Authority (CDA), told Reuters.
At least 157 people were on board the ABQ-202, a civil aviation official said.
The 157 included 151 passengers and six crew members, the official said. To view the passenger list, click here.
Rescue workers arrived at the scene and managed to pull out four injured passengers from under the rubble.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said five injured people were recovered from the site and were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
Earlier, Imtiaz Inayat, a senior Islamabad municipal official, told a private television channel that up to five bodies had been recovered from the site of the crash.
Several bodies are lying in the area. Four or five bodies have been taken, Inayat said.
Separately, Imtiaz Elahi, chairman of the Capital Development Authority, said: We have sent fire engines to the site, so far five dead bodies have been recovered.
The total number of survivors was not immediately known, another local administration official said.
Rescue teams have reached the area. They are fully equipped. They are scanning the entire area. Those wounded or survivors are being provided assistance and arrangements have been made to take them to hospitals.
We are trying to get details about the passengers. It's a big tragedy. It's really a big tragedy, he said.
Mubarik Shah, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority, said: We are gathering information. We have no more details.
The plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and the exact cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
The aircraft had lost contact with the control tower during the crash which occurred amid thick fog and heavy rainfall in Islamabad.
Guards with the forestry service said they had found some wreckage and seen some bodies, police official Mohammad Saeed said. The army said it was sending special troops to the area to help out along with helicopters.
At the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, hundreds of friends and relatives of those on board the flight swarmed ticket counters desperately seeking information. A large cluster of people also surrounded the list of passengers on the flight, which was posted near the Airblue ticket counter.
''Nobody is guiding anyone. People are running from one counter to another,'' said Arshad Mahmood, whose brother, Maulana Nawabul Hasan, a prayer leader in a town near Islamabad, was on the flight.
One Saqlain Altaf told a private television news channel that he was on a family outing in the hills when he saw the plane, looking unsteady in the air.
''The plane had lost balance, and then we saw it going down,'' he said, adding he heard the crash.
Thick clouds of smoke were rising from the Margalla Hills.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered authorities to control the fire immediately and rescue passengers.
Raheel Ahmed, a spokesman for Airblue, said an investigation would be launched, but that for now the focus was to find survivors. The plane was no more than eight years old, and it had no known technical issues, Ahmed said. He added that to his knowledge, the pilots had not sent any emergency signals.
Airblue flies within Pakistan as well as internationally to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the United Kingdom.
The only previous recorded accident for Airblue, a carrier that began flying in 2004, was a tailstrike in May 2008 at Quetta airport by one of the airline's Airbus 321 jets.
There were no casualties and damage was minimal, according to the US-based Aviation Safety Network.
The airliner began operations in 2004 with a fleet of Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, the company said on its website.
The plane that crashed on Wednesday was also built by Airbus, the European planemaker said.
We regret to confirm there has been an accident with an Airbus aircraft and we will provide more information when we have more confirmed data available, Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said.
According to the latest available data published by Airbus, Airblue operates six aircraft from its A320 family of short-haul and medium-haul aircraft seating up to 185 passengers.
Forty-five people were killed when a passenger plane belonging to Pakistan International Airlines crashed near Multan in 2006.
ISLAMABAD: Rescue workers have recovered the dead bodies of at least 25 people from the wreckage of an Airblue passenger plane which crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday, an official said.
So far, rescue people have recovered at least 25 dead bodies, Ramzan Sajid, a spokesman for Islamabad's Capital Development Authority (CDA), told Reuters.
At least 157 people were on board the ABQ-202, a civil aviation official said.
The 157 included 151 passengers and six crew members, the official said. To view the passenger list, click here.
Rescue workers arrived at the scene and managed to pull out four injured passengers from under the rubble.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said five injured people were recovered from the site and were rushed to a hospital for treatment.
Earlier, Imtiaz Inayat, a senior Islamabad municipal official, told a private television channel that up to five bodies had been recovered from the site of the crash.
Several bodies are lying in the area. Four or five bodies have been taken, Inayat said.
Separately, Imtiaz Elahi, chairman of the Capital Development Authority, said: We have sent fire engines to the site, so far five dead bodies have been recovered.
The total number of survivors was not immediately known, another local administration official said.
Rescue teams have reached the area. They are fully equipped. They are scanning the entire area. Those wounded or survivors are being provided assistance and arrangements have been made to take them to hospitals.
We are trying to get details about the passengers. It's a big tragedy. It's really a big tragedy, he said.
Mubarik Shah, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority, said: We are gathering information. We have no more details.
The plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and the exact cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
The aircraft had lost contact with the control tower during the crash which occurred amid thick fog and heavy rainfall in Islamabad.
Guards with the forestry service said they had found some wreckage and seen some bodies, police official Mohammad Saeed said. The army said it was sending special troops to the area to help out along with helicopters.
At the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, hundreds of friends and relatives of those on board the flight swarmed ticket counters desperately seeking information. A large cluster of people also surrounded the list of passengers on the flight, which was posted near the Airblue ticket counter.
''Nobody is guiding anyone. People are running from one counter to another,'' said Arshad Mahmood, whose brother, Maulana Nawabul Hasan, a prayer leader in a town near Islamabad, was on the flight.
One Saqlain Altaf told a private television news channel that he was on a family outing in the hills when he saw the plane, looking unsteady in the air.
''The plane had lost balance, and then we saw it going down,'' he said, adding he heard the crash.
Thick clouds of smoke were rising from the Margalla Hills.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered authorities to control the fire immediately and rescue passengers.
Raheel Ahmed, a spokesman for Airblue, said an investigation would be launched, but that for now the focus was to find survivors. The plane was no more than eight years old, and it had no known technical issues, Ahmed said. He added that to his knowledge, the pilots had not sent any emergency signals.
Airblue flies within Pakistan as well as internationally to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the United Kingdom.
The only previous recorded accident for Airblue, a carrier that began flying in 2004, was a tailstrike in May 2008 at Quetta airport by one of the airline's Airbus 321 jets.
There were no casualties and damage was minimal, according to the US-based Aviation Safety Network.
The airliner began operations in 2004 with a fleet of Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft, the company said on its website.
The plane that crashed on Wednesday was also built by Airbus, the European planemaker said.
We regret to confirm there has been an accident with an Airbus aircraft and we will provide more information when we have more confirmed data available, Airbus spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said.
According to the latest available data published by Airbus, Airblue operates six aircraft from its A320 family of short-haul and medium-haul aircraft seating up to 185 passengers.
Forty-five people were killed when a passenger plane belonging to Pakistan International Airlines crashed near Multan in 2006.
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The following are the names of the passengers who were on board the flight.
PYAR ALI
IMTIAZ ALI KURD
SYEED SHAAN-E-HUSSAIN NAQVI
PREM CHAND
HASSAN JAVED KHAN
SYED ARSALAN AHMED
MOHD. TUFAIL
ABDUL REHMAN
MOHD. FAISAL RASHEED
MOHD. OVAIS
HUSSAIN ALAM
GHULAM ABBAS
NAVEED ILYAS
MOHD. ALI MUGHAL
MOHD AFTAB
SHIREEN LODHI
MOHD. NAWAB HASSAN
ASIM ARAIN
ALI SHERAZI
MOHD. BASHIR
ZAHID HABIBI
DR.MIRKO CVJFTICANIN
ASIA BEGUM
MOHD. UMAIR KHAN
HAJI REHMAT GUL
MOHD. SAQIB RAFIQ SHAIKH
MISHA DAWOOD
ALI ASGHAR RAJAB ALI
RASHIDA TYEB KHAN
MURTAZA TYED KHAN
MALIK MOHD. YOUSUF
NABEEL LUTFI
MANZOOR NASIR
SALEEM AHMED
ROSIE AHMED
SALAUDDIN SYED
HAMID JAVED
MOHD. YOUSUF
ATA RAJA
SALMAN KHAN BIJRANI
MEHRAN KHAN BIJRANI
ANWAR BIBI
GULZAR BIBI
TARIQ SUBHAN
ABDUL GHAFFAR
IRFAN IRFAN
MOHD. SULTAN
MOHD. YASEEN
GAYABA KHAN
MANZOOR AHMED
MASOOD SALAM
SYED AZAM
OJAM KHAN
JANNAT GUL
ZAINTUN BIBI
WAHEED UR REHMAN
MOHD. FEROZE
DR. SURESH
MOHD. ASAD
AMIR SIDDIQUI
MONA DHONKI
MEHLEE DHONKI
AMIR DHONKI
AFSHAN DHONKI
MASOOD KAYANI
ZAFAR SALEEM
ABDUL GHANI
ADNAN QAYOOM
ABBAS HAIDER
OSAMA GHAFOOR
MOHD. ZAMEEN
ANDALEEB JUNAID
ABDUL RAHEEM
MOHD. ZAID RAUF
ANWAR BEGUM
NUSRAT BEGUM
ALI SHAH
KAMRAN SHAH
ABDUL QAYUM
MAQSOOD AHMED
ABDUL GHAFFAR
MOHD. IQBAL
KHAN ZAMAN
A M NASIR
SYEDA RABAB ZEHRA NAQVI
OVAIS BIN LAIQ
BILAL JAMAEE
SYED ASHIQ HUSSAIN SHAH
SAMATAR BASHIR
AMER KHATTAQ
HASSAN NASEEM
ATIF RASHEED
KANEZE AKHTHAR
SHAMSUL HAQ
KHADIM HUSSAIN REHMAT KHAN
MIRZA TAHIR BAIG
MOHD IRFAN
MALIK GHULAM HUSSAIN
JAVERIA FARAZ
MOHD AJMAL KHAN
SIKANDER HAYAT AWAN
MUBASHIR SHAHID
TARIQ SHAHID
MR. KAMRAN
MR. SALEEM
JAVAID IQBAL
PERVEZ AKHTHAR
RAHEEM KHAN RAJPUT
IKHLAAS KHAN
ASWAH GUL
ANSAR ABBAS
ATHAR IFTIKHAR
HAJI GUL MEHBOOB
FAROOQ KHAN
SYED JAWAD ALI
AYESHA AMIR
ALIZA AMIR
ABU BAQR IZHAR
SAPNA MUNAWAR
FAROOQ NADEEM
MOHD. ASIF
HASSAN ADEEL
ABID MEHMOOD
MALIK MUHAMMAD AJMAL
OWAIS KHAN
ROMAISA KHAN
MUHAMMAD SALEEM
MUJAHID REHMAN
AESAR ALI
TASLEEM KAUSAR
MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM
GHULAM RASOOL
MRS SHAHEEN
MRS SABIRA
MRS GULSHAD
MR RAWAHA
JEHANGIR KHAN
ALI AKBER
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE
SYED HAIDER ZULFIQAR SHAH
MUHAMMAD SALEEM AKHTAR
RIZWAN GHANI KHAN
AMBER RIZWAN
MUHAMMAD ZAWAR KHAN
ARBAAZ KHAN
MUSKAN RIZWAN
FARID AHMED ALVI
SHAMAS US REHMAN ALVI
KHIZER PERVAIZ
KIRAN ALVI
MUHAMMAD KHALID
ASIF SHEHZAD
AYESHA ASIF
SYED AINULLAH AGHA
AFAZAL MASOOD
SYED ATTAULLAH HASHMI
WAHEED SHAIKH
NAVAID CHAUDHRY
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