Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) ATR plane enroute to Islamabad from Chitral has crashed near Havelian, Abbottabad.
PIA’s ATR-42 aircraft operating as PK-661 was scheduled to reach Islamabad but it lost contact with control tower. Captain Saleh Hayat was operating the flight. There were 42 passengers and five crew members aboard the ill-fated craft which included renowned religious personality Junaid Jamshed and his wife.
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Civil Aviation Authority, through a tweet, confirmed that there are no survivors from total 47 people aboard the aircraft.
