Plane crash Pakistan: A Pakistani passenger plane with 152 people on board has crashed near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan on Wednesday.
80 bodies were recovered from the crash site so far and seven people have been found alive between the wrecks of the airplane, according to Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik.
The passenger plane, property of the private airline company Air Blue, was on route to Islamabad from the sea port city of Karachi when it crashed. The plane hit a hillside – the Margalla Hills – when it attempted landing. Seven military rescue helicopters rushed to the scene of the crash in an attempt to help with the rescue operations.
Authorities are still investigating the causes of the plain’s crash. They do not know so far if the monsoon season had something to do with the accident. The possibility of a terrorist attack was not ruled out so far. The Pakistani prime minister has ordered the military to start investigating the accident right away.
Although the authorities have released the list of the passengers that were on the plane, it is still not known how many foreign citizens were traveling on it.
The Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and the prime minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani have expressed their shock and grief over the accident.