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A plane with 99 people in Pakistan crashed. To date, more than 50 bodies have been recovered, but the number of casualties is likely to increase because the place where the passenger plane crashed was a residential area.

Reporter Kim A-young.

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residential area near Karachi Airport in southern Pakistan was engulfed in smoke.

Local time Yesterday (22nd), around 2:45 pm, A320 passenger plane from Pakistan International Airlines crashed here.

[Tahir Hussein / Sightseeing (Pakistan International Aviation Technician): It usually doesn't sound like an earthquake when it crashes, but feels like an earthquake.] The

plane was about to take off an hour and a half ago from the northeastern area and drop off at a nearby airport.

Local airlines say at least two of the 99 passengers, including passengers and crew, seem to have survived.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has determined that there are no Korean passengers.

With more than 56 bodies recovered, the number of casualties is likely to increase.

The pilot was disconnected eight minutes prior to the crash after notifying the airport control center of the technical flaw, but a voice file was deemed to have been released.

[LiveATC.net (air traffic control related site): The engine is lost. Mayday (Rescue Signal), Pakistan8303.] The

Pakistani authorities, along with rescue and remediation efforts, have identified the exact cause of the accident.

Pakistan stopped operating domestic flights from March in the aftermath of Corona19, and resumed operations on the 16th of this month.