Airblue Jet crashes in Pakistan’s capital

In a police sources reports, a passenger plane, 152 passengers onboard, crashed into Margalla Hills in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Wednesday morning but no immediate casualty report has been received.

From the local TV ARY News, it was reported that the private airlines flight traveling from Turkey to Islamabad via Karachi, the south port city of Pakistan, lost contact with the control tower of Islamabad airport.

According to the reports, the rescue and police teams have been dispatched to the site of crash. The private airplane crashed behind the mountainous range of Margalla Hills, near the Damanekoh resort.

Local media said that the fire is visible from the picnic spot of DamaneKoh and rescue teams are trying to reach the site.

Further from the local media, the eyewitnesses have seen the aircraft taking a very low flight. It was a private aircraft coming from Karachi to Islamabad.

A source in the Rescue-1122 emergency services told to new reporters on the phone that it is raining in Islamabad and dense fog might have caused the incident. Many flights have been grounded due to bad weather in eastern city of Lahore.