Another major airline disaster occurred this morning. Airblue flight 202 from Karachi en route to Islamabad went down amidst rain and thunder in Margalla Hills, just outside Pakistan’s capital city. There were reportedly 146 passengers and 6 crew members on board. It is unclear whether weather was a factor in the crash.
File photo of an Airblue Airbus.
Airblue, not to be confused with American carrier JetBlue, is a private carrier founded in 2004 and based in Islamabad, with offices throughout Pakistan, the UAE and UK. The company operates a fleet of Airbus 320s and 321s. The Karachi-Islamabad route is its most frequent.
(Sources: AFP, CNN. Photo from Pakistan Times.)
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