A passenger plane crashed into the Islamabad hills overlooking Pakistan’s capital amid due to poor weather at least killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with body parts and twisted metal wreckage. It was the most horrible plane crash ever in Pakistan, and rescue workers battled with fires and muddy conditions as they searched in vain to find survivors on the densely wooded hillside where the flight went down. The CDA chairman Imtiaz Elahi said; the situations at the site of crash are heartbreaking, it is a huge tragedy, and I confirm it with soreness that there are no survivors. The dead also included two U.S. citizens, without providing further details.

The crash left warped metal wreckage hanging from trees and sprinkled across the ground on a bed of broken branches. Clouds of dense gray smoke rose up from the burning debris as a helicopter hovered above. A rescues worker said with pain; I am only seeing the body parts, this is very horrible scene, and we have searched almost all the area, but there is no chance of any survivors.

The reason of the crash was not right away clear; the plane left the Karachi at 7:45 a.m. for a two hour Airblue flight to Islamabad and was facing difficulty to land during cloudy and rainy weather, said by a civil aviation official. Airblue is a private service based in Karachi, and flight was believed to be carrying mostly Pakistanis. So far rescue workers searched the heavily forested hills recovered nearly 80 bodies from the wreckage.

The Airblue flight was carrying 146 passengers and six crew members. The aircraft was an Airbus A321 and his flight number was ED202. The crash site covered a big area on both sides of the hills, including a section behind Faisal Mosque, one of Islamabad most prominent mosque and not distant from the Daman-e-Koh resort. At the Islamabad airport, hundreds of friends and relatives of those on board the flight grouped ticket counters desperately seeking information. A large come together people also bounded a passenger list posted near the Airblue ticket counter.

Saqlain Altaf told ARY news channel he was on a family outing in the hills when he saw the plane looking unsteady in the air. The plane had lost balance, and then we saw it going down, and they heard the thunderous crash the plane appeared to have strayed off possibly because of the poor weather.

Airblue spokeman Raheel Ahmed said; an investigation would be opened into the cause of the crash. The plane had no recognized technical issues, and even pilots did not send any emergency signals.

The last foremost plane crash in Pakistan was in July 2006 when a Fokker F-27 twin engine aircraft controlled by Pakistan International Airlines slammed into a wheat field on the outskirts of the central Pakistani city of Multan, killing all 45 people on board.

The only earlier recorded accident for Airblue a carrier that began flying in 2004, was a tail strike in May 2008 at Quetta airport by one of the airline’s Airbus A321 jets. There were no casualties and damage was very minimal.

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