HEAVY RAINS DELAY SALVAGE OF CRASHED PAKISTAN PLANE

29. july 17:52 | Safety

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Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.


The Airbus A321, belonging to private airline AirBlue, crashed on Wednesday into a steep and heavily-wooded hillside in Islamabad shortly before it was due to land after a flight from the southern port city of Karachi.

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