It is being reported #PK116 has crashed near Pipplian that is a suburban village of Havelian. The Pakistan International Airlines jet crashed in the north of the nation.
Junaid Jamshed was on board along with his wife and family on the same flight too. As per the reports he was seated on seat number 27. The news of Junaid Jamshed being on board the flight along with wife and children has been confirmed by his manager, who apparently was the last person Junaid Jamshed talked to while he was about to board the flight.
Juanid Jamshed was in Chitral and updated a few pictures of him with the cricketer Inzimam Ul Haq on his Twitter on 4th December 2016.
There are 47 passengers on board the plane, according to media reports.
The flight is said to be carrying DC Chitral Osama along with 9 women, 31 children and 2 children.
PK-661 “lost contact with the control tower on its way from Chitral to Islamabad a short while ago”, said a statement from the airline.
All resources are being mobilised to locate the aircraft”, it added. Rescue teams were en route to the crash site. The army said it dispatched troops and helicopters to the location.
Shortly before the crash was confirmed, Daniyal Gilani, the spokesman for PIA, said their ATR-42 aircraft carrying around 40 passengers and crew had lost touch with the control tower.
There were no immediate details on casualties but Pakistan’s interior ministry dispatched a team with experts on identifying bodies through DNA tests.
Pakistan’s last major air disaster was in 2015 when a military helicopter crashed in a remote northern valley, killing eight people including the Norwegian, Philippine and Indonesian envoys and the wives of Malaysian and Indonesian envoys.
The country’s deadliest crash was in 2010, when an Airbus 321 operated by private airline Airblue and flying from Karachi crashed into hills outside Islamabad while about to land, killing all 152 on board.
