Islamabad, December 7 (IANS) A Pakistani plane on a domestic flight with 47 people on board on Wednesday crashed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the media reported.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane was flying from the northern city of Chitral to Islamabad when it crashed, Xinhua news agency said quoting Pakistani media.
The plane, whose pilot gave a distress call before it went off the radar, went down in a mountainous area, Pakistani newspapers and television channels reported.
The accident took place near the town of Abbottabad.
Pakistan pop star turned cleric Junaid Jamshed among those feared dead in air crash - official
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Junaid Jamshed, a Pakistani pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, was on board an aircraft that crashed into a mountainside on Wednesday, a airline official told Reuters.
Jamshed rocketed to fame in Pakistan in the 1980s and 1990s as the singer for the Vital Signs rock group, and later launched a solo career, with a string of chart-topping albums and hits.
His name appeared on a passenger manifest for Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) flight PK661, which crashed near the northern town of Havelian. His presence on board was confirmed by Sohail Ahmed, a PIA official in Chitral.
Jamshed retired from music in 2001 and announced that he was devoting his life to Islam, joining the conservative Tableeghi Jamaat religious organisation.
