Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Plane Crashes into Margalla Hills Islamabad on 28th July 2010 BREAKING
A passenger plane, with about 150 passengers onboard, crashed into
Margalla Hills in Islamabad on Wednesday morning but no immediate
casualty report has been received, police sources said. 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, a private TV reported. Police and rescue teams have
been dispatched to the site of crash. The plane crashed behind the
mountainous range of Margalla Hills, near the Damanekoh resort,
according to reports. Fire is visible from the picnic spot of DamaneKoh
and rescue teams are trying to reach the site. Eyewitnesses have seen
the aircraft taking a very low flight. It was a private aircraft coming
from Karachi to Islamabad, local media reported. It is raining in
Islamabad and dense fog might have caused the incident, a source in the
Rescue-1122 emergency services told media on phone. Many flights have
been grounded due to bad weather in eastern city of Lahore. The well
guarded hills surrounds northeast of the capital city. Some parts of it
are fitted with anti-aircraft guns and many Pakistani troop checkpoints
are located on the hills.
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