{"id":4479,"date":"2016-12-07T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2016-12-07T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:20:01","slug":"plane-with-some-47-people-on-board-crashes-in-north-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/12\/07\/plane-with-some-47-people-on-board-crashes-in-north-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane with some 47 people on board crashes in north Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with about 47 people on board crashed in the mountainous north of the country on Wednesday, police and the civil aviation authority said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PIA said a plane bound for the capital, Islamabad, from the northern town of Chitral lost contact with the control tower en route.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft was carrying &#8220;around 40 people&#8221;, the airline said in a statement, but the civil aviation authority said 47 people were on board. It is not clear if there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Laiq Shah, a senior police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the plane had crashed in the province&#8217;s Havelian area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rescue teams are reaching the scene of the crash, and then we will know more,&#8221; Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Pervez George told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Geo News and Dawn News TV stations, citing civil aviation sources, said the plane lost contact with civil aviation authority at around 4.30 pm (local time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with about 47 people on board crashed in the mountainous north of the country on Wednesday, police and the civil aviation authority said. &nbsp; PIA said a plane bound for the capital, Islamabad, from the northern town of Chitral lost contact with the control tower en route. &nbsp; The aircraft was carrying &ldquo;around 40 people&rdquo;, the airline said in a statement, but the civil aviation authority said 47 people were on board. It is not clear if there were any casualties. &nbsp; Laiq Shah,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}