KARACHI, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A small charter plane with at least 20 people on board crashed after taking off from Pakistan's Karachi airport on Friday, an aviation official said, adding that there were no survivors.
Pervez George, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority, said the aircraft crashed due to a technical fault soon after taking off. At least 12 bodies have been recovered.
"The plane has been destroyed," said Lt. Colonel Noor Agha, an army official supervising recue operations. "The dead bodies are burned beyond recognition. It could not be recognised whether they are men or women. We don’t know nationalities."
Civil aviation officials said the small aircraft was chartered by an oil company, although there was no word yet on its country of origin.
