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Airplane crash in Pakistan: flight recorder found - top model died

2020-05-24T07:24:09.965Z


Terrible plane crash in Pakistan: A passenger plane crashed into a residential area. Survivors depict dramatic scenes on board. 


Terrible plane crash in Pakistan: A passenger plane crashed into a residential area. Survivors depict dramatic scenes on board. 

  • A passenger plane crashed in Pakistan .
  • The plane crash occurred on Friday (May 22) near the city of Karachi.
  • 97 of the 99 passengers on board the scheduled flight are said to have died. A survivor describes the last few seconds before the crash. 

Airplane crash in Pakistan: Flight recorders found

Update from May 24th, 8:59 am : Almost all people on board the PK8303 flight were killed in the crash. The passenger plane crashed into a residential area shortly before landing at Karachi Airport. The rescue work at the crash site continues on Sunday. An exact cause of the crash is initially unclear. There are eyewitness accounts and survivors from the passenger plane described dramatic scenes (see below). Shortly before the crash, the pilot reported technical problems with the machine, said the head of the airline concerned PIA, Arshad Malik. Radio messages indicated a failure of the engine of the machine. Now the black box was found. 

Airplane crash in Pakistan: sad certainty for family - top model died

Update from May 23, 3:58 p.m .: Now it is a sad certainty for her family and relatives who previously had hope: The 28-year-old Pakistani model Zara Abid was on board the crashed passenger plane and died in the process. According to the picture , this became known when the second survivor could be identified.

Tragically, the model celebrated as a star in Pakistan posted a photo of herself in a helicopter on Instagram in a last post before the accident. Below her statement: "Fly high, it's good". 

Check out this post on Instagram

~ Fly high, it's good #ZaraAbid

A post shared by Zara Abid (@zaraabidofficial) on May 19, 2020 at 4:50 pm PDT

In addition to being awarded the “Best Female Model”, she recently worked as an actress in her home country . The Pakistani fashion world is already mourning its model star and expresses its condolences to Abid's family on social media. The official confirmation of the death by the authorities is still pending.

Airplane crash in Pakistan: survivor describes terrible scene - "I saw so much smoke and fire"

Update of May 23, 2:13 p.m .:  According to the latest reports, 97 of the 99 passengers on the passenger plane that crashed in Pakistan are said to have died. Two people who were on the plane survived. Three survivors had previously been mentioned. However, a resident was wrongly added.  

Muhammad Zubair is one of the two survivors. According to the picture , he was now describing from the bedside what terrible scenes were happening shortly before the machine crashed . At first the flight was completely normal and without any disturbing occurrences. But then the plane descended. "Suddenly the plane jerked violently, once and then again," the survivor reported. Apparently the direction was changed and the pilot warned that the landing could be "problematic". "People panicked and started praying loudly," he describes the last minutes before the crash. Then Zubair's memory tears off. Until finally in the airplane wreckage awakened.

"I saw so much smoke and fire " and "everywhere there were screams from children , adults and the elderly", he later described it on television. Zubair was able to pull himself out of the rubble until he was finally taken to an ambulance. According to the Ministry of Health, he was in a stable condition despite being burned. 

Pakistan: Airbus A320 crashes in residential area - new details

Update of May 22, 4.35 p.m .: The aviation and armaments company Airbus has now expressed its regret after the plane crash with around 100 people on board in Pakistan. "Our thoughts are with everyone concerned," Airbus said on Friday. "At the moment, Airbus has no confirmed information about the circumstances of the accident," it said. Airbus confirmed that the aircraft concerned was an Airbus A320 operated by Pakistan International Airlines.

The aircraft with registration number AP-BLD and manufacturer serial number 2274 was delivered to Pakistan International Airlines in 2004 . At the present time, it had recorded around 47,100 flight hours and 25,860 flight cycles, Airbus said. The company said it would provide the French aviation security agency BEA and the investigative authorities in Pakistan with full technical support.

The Airbus with flight number PK8303 crashed on Friday en route from the eastern city of Lahore to Karachi

Pakistan: Airbus A320 crashes in residential area - at least three people survive, first clues to the background

Update from May 22, 2020, 3:59 p.m .:  After the plane crash in Pakistan , almost a dozen bodies were recovered from the crash site. 

Contrary to previous reports, in which 107 dead were mentioned, new findings of the German press agency are now available. According to this, at least three people survived the plane crash in the metropolis of Karachi . That said a spokesman for the aviation authority on Friday. The rescue operation in the residential area in which the Airbus crashed was initially difficult.

One of the survivors, the head of a bank, is in a stable condition, said southern Sindh chief minister Murad Ali Shah, who met the man in a hospital. There may be other survivors , a spokesman for the airline said.

According to the airline, the pilot reported the machine's technical problems to the tower shortly before the crash . Radio messages indicated a failure of one of the machine's engines. Eyewitnesses told local television stations that they saw the plane circling the airport before it crashed in the residential area.

Pakistan: Airbus A320 crashes in residential area - all 107 occupants are said to have died

Update of May 22, 2020, 3:20 p.m .:  According to the mayor of Karachi, a plane crashed in southern Pakistan said that all 107 inmates - including 99 passengers, eight crew members - still died at the scene of the accident. This is reported, among other things, by the “Tagesspiegel” first.

The Airbus crashed into apartment buildings near the airport. According to the report, some houses were damaged and at least 15 people who were wounded in the houses were taken to Karachi Jinnah Hospital. A state of emergency was declared there, as a doctor said. The army is now also on site to support the civil authorities.

First message from May 22, 2020: Pakistan: Airbus A320 crashes in residential area - 99 passengers on board

Islamabad - A passenger plane crashed in southern Pakistan. The Airbus A320 with around 107 people on board crashed near the city of Karachi in a residential area, the country's aviation authority said on Friday.

Pakistan: Airbus A320 crashes in residential area - 99 passengers on board

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane had started in Lahore and was due to land at Karachi Airport. Then the Airbus crashed into apartment buildings near the airport. The Airbus A320 was just approaching the airport. Videos of the crash are spreading on social networks. Clouds of smoke can be seen. 

2020, kya kay din dikhayega #Pakistan https://t.co/eKAh2igeQT

- Narottam Agrahari (@imnarottam) May 22, 2020

There is initially no official information about the number of victims. Police and the military cordon off the area around the crash site. Clouds of smoke and debris from destroyed houses can be seen on other videos. Emergency services try to extinguish the burning houses. Rescue workers are on duty to rescue injured people from the rubble.

#PIA plane crashed pic.twitter.com/uegVp1j67d

- Muhammad Ali (@ Muhammad_Ali239) May 22, 2020

Drama in Pakistan: plane crash at the end of Ramadan

Due to the corona pandemic, flight operations in Pakistan only resumed a few days ago. Because of the upcoming Eid al-Fitr festival at the end of Ramadan, many people in the country are currently traveling to their hometowns.

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Passenger plane crashes in southern Pakistan near Karachi airport. 

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