A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane flying from Chitral has reportedly crashed on its flight to Islamabad.
Flight PK-116 with 47 passengers went missing near Abbottabad while it was on its way to Islamabad.
The flight departed from Chitral around 3:30pm and was expected to land at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International Airport at around 4:40pm.
A PIA spokesperson told media that flight PK-661 had disappeared from the air control radar.
According to military’s media wing ISPR, army troops and helicopters have been dispatched to the crash site for rescue efforts.
