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All on board dead in Pakistan plane crash
Saturday April 21, 2012 11:53:55 AM,
IANS
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Plane carrying 127 passengers crashes in
Pakistan
A
Pakistani airliner with 127 passengers on board reportedly crashed
near Chaklala airbase in the garrison town of Rawalpindi Friday,
Geo News reported.
The plane belonged to the Karachi-based Bhoja Airline.
According to sources, the Boeing
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Islamabad: All 127
people on board the Bhoja Airlines flight that crashed near here
have died and their bodies have been shifted to a hospital for
identification, Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik
confirmed Saturday.
The aircraft with 118 passengers and nine crew members crashed
Friday, minutes before it was to land at the Benazir Bhutto
International Airport here at 7 p.m., apparently due to bad
weather. The plane had taken off from Karachi at 5 p.m.
The pilot lost contact with the control tower at 6.40 p.m.
A special plane will airlift the relatives of those killed in
the crash from Karachi. Special counters have been set up at the
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences here, where the bodies
are kept, to facilitate the relatives.
Officials from the National Database and Registration Authority
are helping identify the bodies. DNA tests are also being
carried, as most of the bodies are mutilated.
The bodies of about 20 passengers have already been identified
and some of them have been handed over to the relatives, Xinhua
reported quoting the doctors.
The interior minister said several airline officials have been
barred from leaving the country until the probe is complete.
President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered an inquiry into the
second worst air crash in Pakistan in less than two years. The
investigation team was expected to visit the crash site, spread
over one kilometre, Saturday.
According to aviation officials, the plane was 27 years old.
However, the airline claimed the Boeing-737 was fit for flight.
It was the airline's maiden flight from Karachi to Islamabad.
Aviation sources said the black box flight recorder has been
recovered and would help understand the cause of the crash.
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