In a tragic crash, 47 souls aboard a Pakistan national carrier are feared to be dead.
The plane crashed on Wednesday with about 40 passengers and seven crew members on board, police and an airline spokesman said.
According to senior police officer Khurram Rasheed, the plane crashed in a village near the town of Havelian, located about 75 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad. The small twin-propeller aircraft was travelling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed shortly after takeoff.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Pervez George, the spokesman for Civil Aviation Authority, told The Associated Press that a total of 47 people, including crew members, were on board and, “I don’t think there is any chance of finding any survivor.”
TV footage showed debris from the plane and a massive fire at the site of the crash.
Police said rescuers had retrieved at least seven bodies from the debris and efforts were underway to collect the remains of other passengers. There was no official confirmation about casualties, but Pakistan’s Interior Ministry dispatched a team to help identify the bodies through DNA tests.
Authorities have released names of 40 passengers — among them Junaid Jamshed, a famous singer-turned-Islamic-preacher.
According to Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, the plane had lost touch with the control tower prior to the crash. The army said it had dispatched troops and helicopters to the location.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Why would you use a photo of the wrong type of aircraft? Particularly now when everyone is so sensitive to “fake news.”
Exactly what I was thinking!!! How stupid do they think we are?!
It is not a crashed plane – it is sitting on a runway – it is not a twin prop (for those that can read) BUT it is a PIA plane (that most have never seen) and their colors and flag emblem. No fake news if you can read.
That’s because that was the last one they had.
Boeing 737’s are so much like small propeller airplanes that the uninformed news media gets confused.
I was thinkingvthe same thing?
Headline says crowded passenger jet crashes but story says small twin propeller aircraft? Is there no true journalist left in the world or has the bastions of liberal indoctrination (AKA colleges) successfully educated all vestiges of common sense out of their students?
YES Frank they have.
Try a term that has been around a long time – Jet/Prop – fake news?? yawl sound like PC Snowflakes. If you can’t read the article – it doesn’t make any difference – does it?
It appears those hiring reporters are working with the bottom rungs of the Public Indoctrination system. There are way to many obvious errors in this story! Sad.
Headlines read,
Crowded Passenger JET crashes.
When in fact it was a twin propeller 40 passenger aircraft.
Clinton must have wrote this one!
47 killed in a plane crash – no remorse. Jamshed – an Islamic preacher (jr terrorist) – doesn’t even get a smile. All that is posted is “fake news” comments – they sound like Politically Correct Snowflake Trolls.
My prayers for all the families.
Hopefully they were all Muslims.
If you are going to post article’s that warrant no truth. Then I’m not going to read you anymore. I’m g to go back to The Angry Patriot anyway. At least they have proof to back their stories.
Whether the crashed plane was a propelar plane or a jet plane, how does it matter? What matters most is if it has really crashed 47 innocent people have lost their lives!! There are 47 devastated families who got the terrible shok in their lives!! They are in a state of mourning & we should atleast show sympathy to these families, if not possible to help them in any other way. My heartfelt & deep sympathies to the beraved families. May God help them in these terrible times. Let the departed souls rest in peace!!
Would this be classified as a good start?