There are only 2 survivors confirmed from wreckage and 17 bodies 'identified so far'. FMTNews Pakistan
Fire brigade staff try to put out fire caused by a plane crash in Karachi on Friday.
The official statement confirmed two survivors and said that 17 of the bodies had been “identified so far”. Sarfraz Ahmed, a firefighter at the crash site, told AFP the nose of the Airbus A320 and the fuselage had been heavily damaged by the impact, adding that rescuers had pulled bodies from the aircraft who were still wearing seatbelts.
The pilot, Sajjad Gull, who according to an official release was the senior-most A320 pilot with extensive flight experience, complained of a problem after making his second approach to the runway, before air traffic control lost contact with him.Airbus later said in a statement that the plane had first entered service in 2004 and was acquired by PIA a decade later and had logged around 47,100 flight hours.
“I was coming from the mosque when I saw the plane tilting on one side. The engines’ sounds were quite weird. It was so low that the walls of my house were trembling,” said 14-year-old witness Hassan. Commercial flights resumed only days ago, after planes were grounded during a lockdown over the coronavirus pandemic.
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