Karachi Plane Crash: Anupam, Raveena, Anil, Sania & others express condolences

Expressing condolences to bereaved families, Bollywood celebrities like Anupam Kher, Anil Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Anubhav Sinha, along with tennis star Sania Mirza on Friday, said that ir prayers were with families who lost ir loved ones in PIA plane crash in Karachi.

Many people are feared dead after a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 107 people on board crashed into a densely populated residential area near Jinnah International Airport here on Friday, officials said, nearly a week after commercial flights were resumed on a limited scale amidst COVID-19 pandemic in country. Flight PK-8303 from Lahore was about to land in Karachi when it crashed at Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, just a minute before its landing, y said.

PIA Airbus A320 carrying 99 passengers and eight crew members crashed landed into Jinnah housing society located near airport, a spokesperson of state carrier said.

Details of plane crash

Minister of Health and Population Welfare has declared an emergency in all major hospitals of Karachi after incident, Dawn news quoted Meeran Yousuf, media coordinator to Sindh health minister, as saying. Sources report that 40 people have been rescued till w. crash has allegedly occurred due to a possible technical fault with aircraft, as per pilot's last mess to control tower, revealed PIA CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik. Pakistani civil aviation officials say at least two people survived crash of a domestic flight near Karachi - including Bank of Punjab CEO Zafar Masud, who has sustained fractures to his hip and collar bones.

(with PTI inputs)