Saturday, April 21, 2012

Airliner crashes near Islamabad airport

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani airliner with 127 people on board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad on Friday, scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors.

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Aviation official Pervez George gave no details of casualties.

But rescue workers at the crash site said there was no chance of finding survivors. Body parts lay among wreckage strewn in a small settlement just outside Islamabad.

Residents said they had seen a ball of fire in the sky when the plane crashed. Parts of the plane smashed into electricity poles, blanketing the area in darkness.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/20/airliner-with-127-on-board-crashes-near-islamabad-airport

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