{"id":352893,"date":"2020-05-23T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=352893"},"modified":"2020-05-23T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T06:35:08","slug":"pakistan-plane-crash-flight-with-99-on-board-crashes-near-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pakistan-plane-crash-flight-with-99-on-board-crashes-near-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan plane crash: Flight with 99 on board crashes near Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan passenger plane with 99 people believed to be on board crashed in the southern city of Karachi on Friday, the country&#8217;s aviation authority said.<\/p>\n<p>Images aired on national television showed the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight had smashed into a residential area, with clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plane crashed in Karachi. We are trying to confirm the number of passengers but initially it is 99 passengers and eight crew members,&#8221; said Abdul Sattar Khokhar, the spokesman for the country&#8217;s aviation authority, adding that the flight was coming from Lahore. The flight typically takes an hour and a half from the northeastern city of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan&#8217;s most populous province, Punjab, to Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan passenger plane with 99 people believed to be on board crashed in the southern city of Karachi on Friday, the country&#8217;s aviation authority said. Images aired on national television showed the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight had smashed into a residential area, with clouds of thick black smoke billowing from the site. &#8220;The plane crashed in Karachi. We are trying to confirm the number of passengers but initially it is 99 passengers and eight crew members,&#8221; said Abdul Sattar Khokhar, the spokesman for the country&#8217;s aviation authority, adding that the flight was coming from Lahore. The flight typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}