The Pakistan Aviation Authority announced Friday, Friday, that a plane carrying more than 100 people crashed in Karachi, the capital of the south, amid reports of the death of one person.
A local government spokesman, Abdul Rashid Channa, said in a statement that at least one passenger had survived the crash of the Pakistan Airways airline.
He added that Sindh Prime Minister Murad Ali Shah inquired about the health of banker Dhofar Mahmoud, who had been miraculously survived.
The Pakistani Civil Aviation Authority stated that the plane had 91 passengers on board, in addition to its eight crew members.
Distress call
A recording posted on the surveillance website "Live at CNet" said that the pilot of the ill-fated Pakistani plane sent a distress signal and informed the control tower that the plane's two engines failed in its second landing attempt.
After the plane apparently canceled an earlier landing attempt and swirled around the airport to land again, one observer informed the pilot of Flight 8303 that it was veering left and derailing.
"We are back, sir. The two engines failed," the commander replied. The controller authorized the plane to land at any of the runways at Karachi Airport in the west and southwest of the airport.
After 12 seconds, the pilot sent a distress signal and was again authorized to land on either of the two runways.
There were no further communications from the aircraft, which was said to be an Airbus 320, according to the audio recording on the website concerned with the recordings of the aircraft.
Crash incidents
The disaster comes just days after the country announced the resumption of domestic commercial flights, and it was for more than a month that all domestic flights were suspended in order to avoid the outbreak of the Corona virus, while the number of international flights was very limited.
The aviation safety record in Pakistan shows numerous civilian and military aircraft and helicopter crashes over the years.
The last plane crash in Pakistan was in December 2016, when a Pakistan Airways plane crashed during an internal flight in a mountainous area in the north of the country, killing 47 people.
The most deadly crash in recent years in Pakistan in 2010 was the crash of the Airbus 321 private plane, Air Blue, over the hills during a flight between Karachi and Islamabad shortly before landing in the capital, killing 152 people.