Air blue crashes in Margalla Hills with 150 onboard; 10 bodies recovered

A private airline passenger plane carrying 150 passengers crashed in the Margalla Hills on Wednesday morning. So far 10 bodies have been recovered, according to CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayatullah. The dead bodies have been sent to PIMS hospital. According to Spokesman PIA Sultan Hassan , a Blue Air passenger plane ED-202 carrying 152 passengers including 5 children, two infants and 6 crew members departed from Karachi airport at 7:50 am for Islamabad however during the flight suddenly all contact was lost with the flight with the control tower and after a while it crashed near Daman-e-Koh on Margalla Hills due to inclement weather. Eyewitnesses said people noticed airbus flying at very low altitude near Daman-e-Koh and soon they heard a loud explosion and smoke coming out from the site. He said that due to loss in contact with the plane the pilot could not have known about the weather in Islamabad. According to Air Blue sources, the Air Blue flight was being flown by Pilot Pervez Iqbal Ch and first officer Mujtabian Chugtai. CDA Chairman Imtiaz Inayatullah talking to media told that so far 10 bodies have been recovered from the site and finding any survivors would be a miracle On the orders of Federal Minister for Interior, Senator A. Rehman Malik, police and rescue teams were sent on the spot immediately and the help of Pakistan Air Force has also been sought. Thick clouds of smoke were witnessed rising from the Margalla Hills. The rescue teams have been dispatched to the site of the incident but they are facing extreme difficulties due to weather and no walking terrains at the site. Three army aviation helicopters are engaged in rescue operation. An emergency has been imposed in all hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani have expressed their shock and grief over the crash of an aircraft on the Margalla hills, due to bad weather. The President and Prime Minister directed immediate rescue efforts and coordinated measures to reach the inaccessible site Federal Minister for Interior, Senator A. Rehman Malik has also condoled over the loss of lives in the tragic incident. A cell has been established in National Crisis Management Cell, Ministry of Interior with Telephone Numbers 051-9211223-4. Names of people on board Crew members: Pervaiz Ali Chaudhary (Pilot), Muntabajib Chughtai(1st officer), Umme Habiba, Shahzia Razzaq, Hina Usman and Nahid Bhatti. Passengers: Passengers list of crashed flight Private airline 'Air Blue issued the list of names of passengers onboard the plane crashed in Islamabad on Wednesday. The names of passengers are Pyar Ali, Imtiaz Ali Kurd, Syeed Shaan-E-Hussain Naqvi, Prem Chand, Hassan Javed Khan, Syed Arsalan Ahmed, Mohd. Tufail, Abdul Rehman, Mohd. Faisal Rasheed, Mohd. Ovais, Hussain Alam, Ghulam Abbas, Naveed Ilyas,Mohd. Ali Mughal Mohd Aftab, Shireen Lodhi, Mohd. Nawab Hassan,Asim Arain ,Ali Sherazi, Mohd. Bashir,Zahid Habibi,Dr.Mirko Cvjfticanin, Asia Begum,Mohd. Umair Khan,Haji Rehmat Gul,Mohd. Saqib Rafiq Shaikh, Misha Dawood, Ali Asghar Rajab Ali, Rashida Tyeb Khan, Murtaza Tyed Khan, Malik Mohd. Yousuf, Nabeel Lutfi, Manzoor Nasir, Saleem Ahmed, Rosie Ahmed, Salauddin Syed, Hamid Javed, Mohd. Yousuf, Ata Raja, Salman Khan Bijrani, Mehran Khan Bijrani, Anwar Bibi, Gulzar Bibi, Tariq Subhan, Abdul Ghaffar, Irfan Irfan, Mohd. Sultan, Mohd. Yaseen, Gayaba Khan, Manzoor Ahmed, Masood Salam, Syed Azam, Ojam Khan, Jannat Gul, Zaintun Bibi, Waheed Ur Rehman, Mohd. Feroze, Dr. Suresh, Mohd. Asad, Amir Siddiqui, Mona Dhonki, Mehlee Dhonki, Amir Dhonki, Afshan Dhonki, Masood Kayani, Zafar Saleem, Abdul Ghani, Adnan Qayoom, Abbas Haider, Osama Ghafoor, Mohd. Zameen, Andaleeb Junaid, Abdul Raheem, Mohd. Zaid Rauf, Anwar Begum , Nusrat Begum, Ali Shah, Kamran Shah Abdul Qayum , Maqsood Ahmed, Abdul Ghaffar, Mohd. Iqbal, Khan Zaman ,A M Nasir ,Syeda Rabab Zehra Naqvi, Ovais Bin Laiq,Bilal Jamaee , Syed Ashiq Hussain Shah, Samatar Bashir, Amer Khattaq , Hassan Naseem, Atif Rasheed, Kaneze Akhthar, Shamsul Haq, Khadim Hussain Rehmat Khan, Mirza Tahir Baig, Mohd Irfan, Malik Ghulam Hussain, Javeria Faraz, Mohd Ajmal Khan ,Sikander Hayat Awan, Mubashir Shahid, Tariq Shahid, Mr. Kamran, Mr. Saleem , Javaid Iqbal, Pervez Akhthar, Raheem Khan Rajput, Ikhlaas Khan, Aswah Gul, Ansar Abbas, Athar Iftikhar, Haji Gul Mehboob, Farooq Khan,Syed Jawad Ali, Ayesha Amir, Aliza Amir, Abu Baqr Izhar, Sapna Munawar, Farooq Nadeem, Mohd. Asif , Hassan Adeel, Abid Mehmood, Malik Muhammad Ajmal, Owais Khan, Romaisa Khan, Muhammad Saleem ,Mujahid Rehman,Aesar Ali, Tasleem Kausar, Muhammad Ibrahim ,Ghulam Rasool, Mrs Shaheen, Mrs Sabira, Mrs Gulshad, Mr Rawaha , Jehangir Khan, Ali Akber, Muhammad Rafique , Syed Haider Zulfiqar Shah, Muhammad Saleem Akhtar , Rizwan Ghani Khan, Amber Rizwan, Muhammad Zawar Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Muskan Rizwan, Farid Ahmed Alvi, Shamas Us Rehman Alvi, Khizer Pervaiz, Kiran Alvi, Muhammad Khalid, Asif Shehzad, Ayesha Asif, Syed Ainullah Agha, Afazal Masood, Syed Attaullah Hashmi, Waheed Shaikh, Navaid Chaudhry

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