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ISLAMABAD: A passenger plane crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday, reports said.

More than 150 people were on board, an aviation spokesman said.


The plane was on its way from Turkey to Islamabad via Karachi, sources told DawnNews.

Police official Gulab Khan said the crash occurred in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday morning.

Rescue workers were heading to the scene.
 
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AIR BLUE A/C - 146 PERISHED
MAY ALLAH GRANT THEM PEACE IN JANNAT
VERY SAD DAY

I WILL BE OFF-LINE TODAY
 
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god bless the soul of them who died.

very sad news indeed - 150 is a big number. i hope some survived.
 
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Updated at: 1106 PST, Wednesday, July 28, 2010
ISLAMABAD: Four dead bodies have been recovered from the site where a private airliner was crashed early on Wednesday, Geo News reported.
 
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the plane was sirbus a321-200 of air blue

was attempting to land in heavy rain and fog, and reportedly lost radio contact with control tower
 
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Unfortunately all 146 passengers + 6 crew members have died in the accident, according to Interior Minister's statement.

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Everyone on board a passenger plane died when the Airbus 321 crashed in the hills of Islamabad while trying to land from Karachi, a cabinet minister said.

Civil Aviation Authority has set up a five-member inquiry committee to probe into Margalla aircrash.
 
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152 Killed as Plane Crashes into Islamabad's Margalla Hills
Islamabad, July 28 (IANS) : All 152 on board a private Pakistani airline flight from Karachi were killed when the jet crashed amid heavy rain in the thickly wooded Margalla Hills near this Pakistani capital Wednesday morning.

Airblue flight 202, coming in from Turkey via Karachi, abruptly lost contact with the airport here and crashed near the popular Damanekoh resort at about 9.45 a.m., about two hours after it had taken off from Karachi.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik confirmed that nobody had survived the crash. There were 152 people on board the Airbus A-321, includng six crew members
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The wreckage turned into a ball of flame and plumes of thick smoke rose through the wet sky. A rescue official said he had seen burnt bodies and parts of the plane spread all over the Margalla valley in what is possibly Pakistan's worst air disaster.

Hampered by rain, rescue staff struggled to reach the crash site in an inaccessible and difficult terrain. The aircraft wreckage was spread in a wide area on both sides of the valley.

Over 100 bodies had been recovered, said Islamabad Police's Deputy Inspector General Binyamin. He added that identification of the bodies could be a problem.

The rescuers formed a three kilometre long human chain to evacuate the bodies. Heavy equipment required to cut through the debris of the aircraft struggled to reach the site.

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight had taken off from Islamabad for Karachi at about the same time but was diverted to Lahore because of bad weather.

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Eyewitnesses said they saw the ill-fated plane flying very low.

Saqlain Altaf told a Pakistani news channel that he was on a family outing in the hills that skirt Islamabad when he saw the plane, looking unsteady in the air.

"The plane had lost balance, and then we saw it going down," he said.

The armed forces were summoned to help in rescue efforts and emergency declared in the hospitals.

Civil Aviation spokesperson Pervez George said that flight was allowed go ahead after all necessary weather and technical checks. "The plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad and it lost contact with us at around 9.45 local time (0445 GMT)."

Some of 159 confirmed passengers could not catch the flight as they were late.

But some were not so lucky. A couple on board had reportedly married just three days ago and were going to Islamabad on their honeymoon while six school children were travelling to Islamabad to attend a session of the youth parliament.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani cancelled his cabinet meeting and undertook an aerial survey of the crash site along with the chief ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pathtunkhwa.

The civil aviation authority formed an inquiry board headed by Air Commodore Abdul Majeed to probe the crash.

There were chaotic scenes at the airport here. Anxious relatives thronged the Benazir Bhutto International Airport to get information about their dear ones. A man cried inconsolably as he waited outside the airport to learn about the fate of the passengers.

The aircraft captain was Pervez Iqbal Chaudhary while Muntajibud Din was his co-pilot. Shazia Razzaq, Umme Habiba, Hina Usman and Naheed were the flight attendents

a dark day for the whole nation, :cry:

may the souls of departed rest in peace :pakistan:

regards!
 
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dreadfull sceans from other sites as well.

Allah ho Akbar,

may there souls rest in peace...

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Pakistani rescue worker search for survivors amid the wreckage of a plane that crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain Wednesday, officials said. ((AP Photo))

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7 survivors found injured at plane crash site in Islamabad, Pakistan

English.news.cn 2010-07-28 15:13:08 FeedbackPrintRSS

Backgrounder: Major plane crashes in recent years

Backgrounder: Pakistani airline Airblue


Police guard near the site a jetliner crashed near Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, July 28, 2010.(Xinhua/Zeeshan iyazi)


ISLAMABAD, July 28 (Xinhua)-- Seven survivors were found injured in the plane crash which took place on Wednesday morning in the Margalla Hills in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, sources on the site told Xinhua, adding the survivors have been rushed to hospital.

The tragedy took place at about 10:00 a.m. when an airbus flight of a Pakistani private airliner named Airblue, which reportedly carried 152 people including six crew members from Turkey to Islamabad via Karachi crashed behind the mountains of Margalla Hills lying to the northeast of the capital.

So far 20 dead bodies have been recovered from the crash site, said sources on the site, adding some of the dead bodies are still on fire. One of the dead bodies was identified as Barak or Barkat. No further details about the killed and survivors are available.

Latest news coming in said the body of the pilot has been found.

Two zoo keepers nearby the crash site sold Xinhua that they saw the plane taking very low flight brushing the trees on the ground and the pilots were trying desperately to take the nose up but failed.

Shortly after the incident happened, large number of rescue teams have been dispatched to the crash site. A total of seven military helicopters have been dispatched to join the rescue work. All the hospitals in Pakistan's capital Islamabad have declared emergency.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/28/c_13419096_2.htm
 
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