Airliner crashes in Pakistan, killing all 127 on board

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No survivors have been found, officials and rescue workers reported. Organs and parts of the plane were scattered over a wide area on fields and in a village, about three to four miles from the airport in Islamabad, where the plane was due to land at 18.40 pm local time had. The flight had taken over itself, from Karachi, Pakistan the primary interface shortly after 05.00 P.m.
There was heavy rain, lightning and low clouds at the Islamabad as the aircraft area, came an old Boeing 737-200 brought by the local Bhoja air, a private low-cost airline, flew into the country.
"The weather was very rough." "There was Thunder and hail," said Arshad Mehmood, a marine pilot who observed the crash and rushed to the scene. "The aircraft stalled advised and rose very quickly." The most likely reason was the weather. "The pilot could not control the plane."
He went on: "we came there for five minutes, there were killed and parts of bodies everywhere we were able to find no survivors..."
Civil and military rescue workers and local residents worked at the scene, recovery of bodies Ken Griffey Shoes . An emergency was declared in the hospitals of the area of Islamabad.
Twisted, battered, burnt pieces of the plane were scattered across about a half mile. An intact set wheels were in the field, along with one of the doors of the aircraft. Children's shoes, identity cards, women jewellery and other possessions were scattered about the scene. The villagers said she ran out, in order for anyone alive look, but found only bodies.
There were 118 passengers, including 68 women and six children, and nine crew members on board. No foreigners were an airport official in Karachi on the run, Mansab Bokhari said.
Emergency services struggled to find their way to the crash site in the village of Hussainabad, in the sparsely populated valleys sound 6 miles to the East of the airport from Islamabad.
The only road that was to the site barely wide take enough to a vehicle at a time, and barely paved for the most part, making a mile long line of ambulances and fire engines, the two took hours to reach the crash site Ken Griffey Jr Shoes .
The villagers said that they would be considered a Flash and then a huge explosion heard by a rain of aircraft parts and facilities followed. Some landed on the roofs and in the courtyards of the villagers houses.
Debris from the aircraft was strewn over several miles.
"I was with my family about to eat dinner when there was a flash, a huge bang, and then things started falling," said Niaz Kayani, a retired soldier. "It was a scene from hell: bodies were all over the place, in the fields and on the roofs of homes."
Working in pitch dark, rescue workers and volunteers scoured surrounding fields of nearly ripe wheat, using flashlights and the lights of cellphones to look for survivors.
Instead, they found corpses and body parts.
Mohammad Alamdar, a civil defence supervisor, sat with his colleagues in the middle of a field, poking at shreds of clothing. Lifting one, he said, "This belonged to a little girl. She couldn't have been much older than three or four years old."
Distraught, hysterical relatives gathered at the Karachi and Islamabad airports.
At the Karachi airport, one wailing relative, who didn't give his name, said that his cousin Sajjad Ali Rizvi and Rizvi's wife, Sania Abbas, who'd gotten married just 20 days earlier, had been on board. Television showed a picture of the couple on their wedding day, dressed in glittering clothes. Four honeymooning couples were said to have been on board.
The pilot was a former air force pilot. The flight recorder was found.
There was speculation that Bhoja, as a low-cost carrier, would have tried to save fuel and land at Islamabad, despite the poor weather conditions, rather than divert to another airport. Bhoja previously had closed because of financial difficulties in 2000, and was relaunched last month. Friday was the inaugural flight of the 5 p.m. service from Karachi to Islamabad.
An aviation expert, Razaullah Khan, said the plane probably was hit by a cloud burst, causing a powerful downdraft that pushed the aircraft to the ground.
"The pilot probably tried to get out from under low clouds," Khan said.
There were no casualties among people who live at the crash site. The plane narrowly avoided heavily populated areas in Islamabad and the adjacent city of Rawalpindi.
The 737-200 aircraft, a twin-engine narrow-body jetliner, was first introduced to service in 1968. The 737 has had many newer variants subsequently introduced by Boeing, up to the 737-900. The 737-200 now is used mostly in the developing world. It was phased out of use in the United States by 2008.
Less than two years ago, Islamabad suffered a previous plane crash, when an aircraft flew into the hills that flank the city, killing all 152 people on board. It was flown by another private airline, Air Blue. Questions have been raised frequently about the quality of maintenance of Pakistani airlines.