No survivors in plane crash in Pakistan

A large airliner with about 100 people on board is Friday, crashed at a residential area in the pakistani therefore, Karachi.

It informs the state carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).

There were 90 passengers and eight crew members on board, says Abdul Sattar, who is the spokesman of the PIA.

According to the mayor of Karachi are all on board perished. It writes Sky News and the news agency AP.

The crashed aircraft are of type Airbus 320.

The pakistani English-language newspaper Dawn writes that the passenger plane was on its way from Lahore, in northeastern Pakistan, to Karachi, which is located in southern Pakistan out to The Arabian Sea.

Pakistan's minister of health has declared a state of emergency at all major hospitals in Karachi as a result of the crash. It says Meeran Yousuf, who is pressekoordinator in the ministry, according to Dawn.

- The last we heard from the pilot was that there father is a form of technical problem. It is a very tragic incident, says Abdullah H. Khan, who is the spokesperson of the PIA, according to news agency Reuters.

Footage from Karachi shows the large dark røgskyer rise up around the buildings in the inhabited area in Karachi.

Several cars are also broken in the fire, and firefighters trying to combat the flames from the affected homes. It shows several videos on Twitter.

the Helicopters from the pakistani army is flown to the scene of the accident.

Back in 2016, crashed a plane from the PIA on its way from the pakistani city of Chitral to the capital, Islamabad. 48 passengers were on board and none survived.

Last year, a flight from PIA damaged as it skidded off the runway at Gilgit airport in the northern part of the country. No one died in the accident.

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