A private airliner Air Blue passenger plane carrying over 100 passengers crashed into the Margalla hills here on Wednesday.The other details are stilll sketchy as the rescue teams have been rushed to the scene of the crash to carry out rescue operations. The Inter Services Public Relations sources told APP that three army helicopters have been immediately flown to the Margalla hills where very low visibility will pose a real challenge to rescue victims of the crash. Meanwhile a batch of army troops has also being moved towards the scene to pluck the bodies and retrieve victims of the crash.
The plane was flying from Karachi to Islamabad, which has reportedly lost its contact with the air tower. The exact cause of the crash is yet not known.
When contacted the Civil Aviation Authorities have declined to either comment or give details of the crash but confirmed that it was an Air Blue plane which went down into thick woods of the Margalla hills. According to the private television networks there were over 150 passangers on board the wretched plane.
At least 11 bodies have been recovered by the rescue team at the site where a plane carrying 152 people including six crew members crashed in Margalla Hills Wednesday morning in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, said source on the crash site, adding all of them were killed.
The tragedy took place at about 10:00 a.m. when an airbus flight of a Pakistani private airliner named Airblue from Turkey to Islamabad via Karachi crashed behind the mountains of Margalla Hills lying to the northeast of the capital.
Shortly after the incident happened, a large number of rescue teams including three military helicopters have been dispatched to the crash site.
Sources at the crash site informed Xinhua that the chance for the survival of the people aboard is very slim and local residents in the Margalla Hills also joined the military and police in the rescue work.
The Pakistani prime minister has ordered the military to conduct an investigation into the accident immediately.
The plane whose flight number is not known yet took off from the Karachi International Airport at about 7:50 a.m. this morning.
Large crowds of relatives and friends planned to receive their loved ones taking the flight at the Islamabad airport were shocked upon hearing the news and were eager to know fate of them.
So far the reason for the crash is not known yet. It could be related to bad weather as it was raining heavily in Islamabad when the plane crashed. Many flights coming into Islamabad have been canceled due to bad weather.
The possibility of terrorism is not ruled out as the terrorist groups in Pakistan have threatened to blow airplanes several times during the last month or so.
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