Plane crash in Pakistan (Karachi) kills 20

[RPK]

21 feared killed in air-crash near Karachi airport


http://www.indianexpress.com/news/21-feared-killed-in-aircrash-near-karac.../707406/

At least 21 people, including some foreign nationals, were feared killed when a small aircraft belonging to a private charter service crashed soon after take-off from the airport in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.



The Beechcraft 1900C aircraft of JS Air, which had been chartered to ferry employees of a US oil company, had 19 passengers and two crew members on board, Civil Aviation Authority officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels.



The officials said some foreigners were on the aircraft.



Immediately after the twin-engine turboprop aircraft took off from Karachi aircraft at 7.15 am, the pilot informed the control tower that one of the engines had failed. The pilot was advised to turn back and land.



However, the aircraft crashed into a plot of land near the airport that is controlled by the Pakistan Army's aviation wing and burst into flames. TV news channels reported the aircraft did not hit any structures on the ground.



Army personnel cordoned off the area and launched a rescue operation after dousing the flames. Witnesses told the media that it appeared no one had survived the crash.



Ambulances of the private Chippa rescue service took at least 10 bodies to the Jinnah Hospital.



The aircraft was taking a group of workers to the Bhitshah oilfield. JS Air had been chartered by the US oil company to ferry its workers as part of a weekly change of shift at the oilfield. Due to security concerns, the workers are flown directly to the oilfield.

 

[Areesh]

Sad incident. I hope their would be some survivors. May the dead rest in peace.

 

[SurvivoR]

Yep happened right across my apartments inside the Army's Central Ordinance Depot... However, it happened in a plain ground area, normally there would have been trucks there. Took some vdos with my mobile cam but weren't good, I can still see it, unfortunately can't see the plane, just its tail and I guess the rest is wreckage. Didn't even know it had crashed cuz the blast sounded like PMT explosion, so wasn't bothered to go out and see, but then a never ending flow of ambulances and fire brigades with sirens blaring made me look out.

Inna lillah e wa inna ilahe rajeoon.

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YouTube - Privately owned plane crashes in Karachi

 

[nForce]

really sad incident....may the deceased rest in peace...

 

[Karachiite]

Very sad. RIP to the dead.

 

[naseebkhanniazi]

 

[IceCold]

No survivors in Karachi plane crash​

Updated at: 0917 PST, Friday, November 05, 2010
No survivors in Karachi plane crash KARACHI: A privately-owned aircraft carrying 20 oil company officials crashed in suburb of Karachi on Friday and a military spokesman said there were no survivors.

"The plane has been totally gutted and there are no survivors," lieutenant Colonel Noor Alam who supervised rescue operation told reporters.

The plane was believed to be carrying about 20 people, mostly Pakistanis, he said, adding that bodies have not yet been identified.

It was not immediately clear if there were any foreigners on board, he said.

So far, 12 bodies, gutted completely and unable to be identified, have been recovered and efforts to recover the remaining are underway, Noor Alam said.

Reports from CAA authorities confirmed that at least 20 people were on board who have been feared dead as the wreckage caught fire after crash. Accident took place at 7:15am.

Rescue teams, police, airport security force, ambulances arrived on the accident site and kicked off rescue and relief operations. Plane crashes away from residential area.

Thick smoke was seen emitting from plane while firefighters tried hard to bring fast raging flames under control.

The airplane was of a private company and had been chartered by a US company working on an oil field in Karachi. Two crewmembers and a technician were also on plane.

The crash took place due to engine failure as the pilot tried to contact control tower complaining there was flaw in one engine of plane, reports said.

CAA official Pervez George said the aircraft was carrying company employees to an oil field at Bhit Shah in the southern province of Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital.

"It was a small plane and there were about 20 people on board. It was a privately-owned aircraft belonging to an oil company," George told Geo TV.

"Soon after they left, they contacted the airport control tower and said there was a problem in one of the engines. The plane was directed to return and soon after it crashed," he said.

No survivors in Karachi plane crash - GEO.tv

 

[Xeric]

AFP: Plane crash in Pakistan kills 20

Plane crash in Pakistan kills 20

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

KARACHI — A privately-owned aircraft belonging to an oil company crashed Friday soon after taking off from the Pakistani city of Karachi killing all 20 people on board, a military spokesman said.

The plane came down near a residential area in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar suburb of Karachi.

The aircraft was carrying company employees to an oil field at Bhit Shah in the southern province of Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital.

"It was a small plane and there were about 20 people on board. It was a privately-owned aircraft belonging to an oil company," Aviation authority spokesman Pervez George told Geo TV.

"Soon after they left, they contacted the airport control tower and said there was a problem in one of the engines. The plane was directed to return and soon after it crashed," he said.

 

[Hyde]

Inna Lilla hai wa inna ellaihi raji'oon

Rest in Peace

 

[Xeric]

Charter plane crashes in Karachi, no survivors DAWN.COM

Charter plane crashes in Karachi, no survivors
DAWN.COM
(3 hours ago) Today

Rescuers and airport security personnel gather at an aircraft crash site in Karachi on November 5. — Photo by AFP

KARACHI: A small plane with at least 21 people on board chartered to international oil company ENI crashed after taking off from the Karachi airport on Friday, killing all on board, an aviation official said.

The plane came down near the COD (Central Ordinance Depot) area of the Karachi airport, bursting into flames DawnNews reported

Pervez George, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority, said the aircraft crashed near a military ordnance depot at Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport due to a technical fault soon after taking off.

He added it was en route to an oil field near Bhit Shah in Sindh province, some 190 km northeast of Karachi.

“When it took off, just after one minute, the pilot contacted the control tower saying that there was a fault in one of the engines. He was asked to return, but as it was turning back, it crashed,” George told Reuters.

He said there were 19 passengers and two crew on board. At least 12 bodies have been recovered so far. Aviation officials said there was at least one foreigner on board.

“The plane has been destroyed,” said Lt. Colonel Noor Agha, an army official supervising recue operations.

“The dead bodies are burned beyond recognition. It could not be recognised whether they are men or women. We don’t know nationalities.”

Civil aviation officials said the small aircraft was chartered by oil company ENI, which is based in Italy. No one from the company was responding to phone calls and the nationalities of those killed were not immediately available.

Karachi is Pakistan’s business and economic capital. It is a teeming city of 16 million on the south coast with an Arabian Sea port where Nato supplies dock in preparation for travel overland to soldiers in Afghanistan.

Plane crashes are relatively rare in Pakistan, an enormous country of around 170 million people where inter-city travel is most efficient by air.

On July 28, a passenger Airbus 321 jet operated by Airblue crashed into hills of the Islamabad while coming into land after a flight from Karachi, killing 152 people on board.

Two Americans, an Austrian-born businessman, five children and two babies were among those killed in the worst aviation tragedy on Pakistani soil.

The only deadlier civilian plane crash involving a Pakistani jet occurred when a PIA Airbus A300 crashed into a cloud-covered hillside as it approached the Nepalese capital Kathmandu in 1992, killing 167 people. —Agencies

 

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YouTube - Raw Video: Private Plane Crashes in Pakistan

 

[Arsalan]

May there souls rest in peace