Survivor of Pakistan airline crash recalls last moments of doomed flight: 'I heard people crying, children crying'

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'I'm very thankful to Allah for granting me a second life. It is a miracle,' Mohammad Zubair said.

Zubair said that the pilot tried to land the plane three times unsuccessfully, with the aircraft almost touching down on one attempt before ascending again.The pilot told passengers over the intercom that the aircraft was experiencing engine difficulties and that the landing could be"troublesome." This is Zubair's last memory before he woke up to a scene of devastation, he said.

The Pakistan International Airlines flight PK8303 crashed into a residential area, known as Model Colony, near Jinnah International Airport at 2:39 p.m. local time, destroying or damaging 18 homes in the process, according to Abdullah Hafiz Khan, a spokesperson for the airline. Security personnel search for victims in the wreckage of a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft after it crashed in a residential area in Karachi on May 22, 2020.However, all but two of the 91 passengers and eight crew members aboard the plane died in the crash. Meeran Yousaf, a spokesperson for the provincial health department, said that most of the bodies were badly burned and only 21 had been identified so far.

"The men were praying at the nearby mosque, Masjid-e-Bilal, which is 100 meters from where the plane crashed," local resident Amir Chaudhry told AP.

 

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