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Air Blue Passenger plane crashes in Islamabad 157 on board on 28th july 2010

A plane crashed in the Margalla Hills in Islamabad Wednesday, they said. Said at least 157 people were aboard the ABQ-202, a civil aviation officer. The 157 included 151 passengers and six crew members, the official said. Rescue crews arrived and managed to get four injured from the rubble. Interior Minister of Pakistan Mr. Rehman Malik said that five people injured at the scene have been rescued and were taken to hospital for treatment.

Meanwhile, Channel Imtiaz Inayat, a senior municipal official in Islamabad, during a private TV channel up to five bodies recovered from the crash site. Several organizations in the region. Four or five bodies had been taken, said Inayat. In addition, said Imtiaz Elahi, Chairman of Development Capital, We have fire trucks, sent to the scene recovered five bodies so far. The total number of survivors was not initially known, another official of the local government.

Rescue teams arrived in the area. You are fully equipped. It is scanning the entire surface. The injured survivors are helped and arrangements for them to hospital. We try to get information about passengers. This is a great tragedy. It really is a great tragedy, he said. Mubare Shah, a spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority, said: We are collecting information. We have no details. The plane was traveling from Karachi to Islamabad and the exact cause of the accident was not immediately clear. The plane was in contact with the control tower in the battle, the place among dense fog and heavy rain in Islamabad has lost.

Guards with the forest service said they found the remains and saw bodies, police officer Mohammed Saeed said. The army said it was sending special forces to help in the area with helicopters. Mohammed Usman, an official of Benazir Bhutto has said the international airport met with dozens of family members of passengers, weeping and desperate for information on their relatives. Saqlain Altaf was a news channel, reported a private TV he at a family gathering in the mountains when he saw the plane, looking in unstable air.

"The plane he had lost his balance, then we saw that,"he said, adding that he heard the crash. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the Margalla Hills. Prime Minister of Pakistan Yusuf Raza Gilani has directed the authorities to immediately control the fire and rescue passengers. Airblue could not be reached for comment. The company began operations in 2004 with a fleet Airbus A320 and A321, the company said on its website.

The plane crashed that Wednesday was also built by Airbus, said Airbus. We regret to confirm that you have an accident involving an Airbus aircraft and provide you more details when we have more information available, confirmed spokesman Stefan Schaffrath said Airbus. According to recent data published by Airbus operates six A320 family Airblue for short and medium distances, with a capacity of 185 passengers. Forty-five people were killed when a plane crashed into Pakistan International Airlines in the vicinity include Multan in 2006

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