Pakistan’s search teams have recovered additional debris from a cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea earlier this week. The search for the aircraft’s five missing crew members has entered its third day.
Crash Details
The cargo plane, operated by Karachi-based private carrier K2 Airways, disappeared from radar late Tuesday while flying from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Karachi, Pakistan, after reporting a malfunction in its navigation system.
The Navy recovered the first pieces of wreckage Wednesday about 100 kilometers off the coastal town of Ormara on Pakistan’s southwestern Makran coast in Balochistan province. Officials have said the aircraft’s main fuselage and all five crew members remain missing.
Relatives of the crew are waiting anxiously for news, clinging to hope that their loved ones might somehow be found alive despite the odds. Nazim Jatoi, the father of co-pilot Faisal Jatoi, urged the government to enlist companies with expertise in locating aircraft black boxes in deep water.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
