(7 Dec 2016) A plane belonging to Pakistan's national carrier crashed and burst into flames on Wednesday with 48 people on board, killing all of them, police and an airline spokesman said.
Soldiers and emergency workers searched through the night at the crash site, near a village in the district of Abbottabad, 75 kilometres (45 miles) northwest of the capital, Islamabad.
The small twin-propeller aircraft was travelling from the city of Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed shortly after takeoff.
According to Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, the plane had lost touch with the control tower prior to the crash.
He said the plane was carrying 42 passengers, five crew members and a ground engineer.
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