Pakistan mourns Karachi plane crash on Eid holiday as rescue operation continues.
Officials said recovering all the dead could take two to three days. An investigation has been launched into what caused the crash., said it would provide full technical assistance to investigators in France and Pakistan.
Flight 8303 was making the short trip from Lahore to Karachi's Jinnah International Airport, the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority said. Social distancing rules in place because of theJust before it came down, the pilot transmitted a mayday emergency appeal to the control tower. At least 25 homes were destroyed in the crash. So far, nine families have been reaccommodated, an army spokesman said, adding that the government had pledged to bear the expense of home repairs.
The crash was the country's worst air disaster since 2012, when an aircraft went down near Islamabad.U.S. Secretary of State Mike PompeoMushtaq Yusufzai reported from Peshawar and Adela Suliman from London.Mushtaq Yusufzai is a journalist based in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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