An AirBlue passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed near Islamabad this morning. The Airbus A321 was on its way from Turkey to Islamabad, Pakistan capital city, via Karachi. The plane left Karachi at 7:45 AM for a two hours scheduled flight to Islamabad and was trying to land during difficult weather.

Pervez George, a civil aviation official said that "The plane was about to land at the Islamabad airport when it lost contact with the control tower, and later we learned that the plane crashed".

Forestry service guards found some wreckage and saw at least 5 dead bodies in the hills, said an official. Interior Minister Rehman Malik stated that at least five wounded passengers had been rescued.

At Islamabad airport, hundreds of relatives and friends are trying to have information at the ticket counters. People complain for the lack of information about their families.

AirBlue is a private service low-cost airline based in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.

All 152 people aboard the aircraft are dead. Only 58 bodies have been identified and DNA tests will be carried out on the others.