{"id":20627,"date":"2020-05-22T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2020-05-22T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:55:55","slug":"pakistan-international-airlines-passenger-plane-crashes-in-karachi-the-death-of-all-passengers-and-cabin-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/05\/22\/pakistan-international-airlines-passenger-plane-crashes-in-karachi-the-death-of-all-passengers-and-cabin-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane crashes in Karachi, the death of all passengers and cabin crew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The mayor of Karachi says a Pakistani passenger plane carrying 107 passengers and crew and belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines has crashed, killing everyone on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Wasim Akhtar, at the site of the crash, said the plane went down in a crowded neighbourhood on the edge of the airport. The aircraft arriving from the eastern city of Lahore was carrying 99 passengers and eight crew members, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses said the Airbus A320 appeared to attempt to land two or three times before crashing in a residential area near Jinnah International Airport. Local television reports showed smoke coming from the direction of the airport.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A resident of the area, Abdul Rahman, said he saw the aircraft circle at least three times, appearing to try to land at the airport before it crashed into several houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and military had cordoned off the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airbus did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the crash.<br><br>CBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Karachi says a Pakistani passenger plane carrying 107 passengers and crew and belonging to state-run Pakistan International Airlines has crashed, killing everyone on board. Mayor Wasim Akhtar, at the site of the crash, said the plane went down in a crowded neighbourhood on the edge of the airport. The aircraft arriving from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20631,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20627\/revisions\/20631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}