At least two people including a bank executive have been pulled alive from the wreckage of an Airbus A320 which crashed after an ‘engine failure’ in Pakistan on Friday May 22, with 98 people on board.

“Thank you so much. God has been merciful,’ Zafar Masood, the President of the Bank of Punjab said, according to officials who spoke to him in hospital after the crash. The other known survivor was named as Muhammad Zubair.

The PIA’s Airbus A320 carrying 98 passengers including eight crew, was attempting to land at the city’s Jinnah International Airport after flying from Lahore before it crashed into a residential area of Karachi at about 14:30 local time (09:30 GMT).

Pakistan’s civil aviation authority said the plane had 91 passengers and a crew of seven.

At least two people aboard survived, according to the country’s health department, revising an earlier statement that three were alive. But the other 95 passengers and crew are believed to have died.


The aircraft wings during the crash landing hit the houses in the residential colony before crashing down.

“At least 25 houses have been damaged in this incident,” Edhi said.

“The first priority is to rescue the people. The main hurdle is narrow streets and presence of ordinary people who gathered at the place after the crash but they have been dispersed,” the minister said.

According to BBC, the plane had attempted one landing but as it went round again lost its engines and issued a mayday call to traffic control.

The pilot reportedly said: ‘We are proceeding direct, sir – we have lost engine’. ‘Confirm your attempt on belly,’ the air traffic controller said, offering a runway. ‘Sir, mayday, mayday, mayday, mayday Pakistan 8303,’ the pilot said before the transmission ended


Source - BBC, https://bluebloodz.com/index.php/2020/05/23/pakistani-plane-crash-2-people-pulled-out-alive-from-wreck-of-airbus-a320-that-crashed-in-karachi-see-photos/





Cc DisGuy, justwise

Damn

Waoooh, what a miracle.

They saw death and they conquered.

Thanks you Jesus go and sin no more

chai rip to the dead

Rare occurence.

They are quite lucky. Their will to survive and also their positions at the time of impact must have contributed immensely to the survival.

Probably those inside the residential building.