Pakistan on Thursday observed a day of mourning for the 152 people killed in the country's worst aviation disaster
Media Release
Jul. 29, 2010

The Airbus 321 was coming in to land at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International airport when witnesses saw it flying at an unusually low altitude before hearing a deafening boom.

The plane disintegrated into a gorge between two hills, enveloped in cloud and some distance from the road, severely hampering rescue efforts and limiting visibility for helicopters hovering overhead.

"I saw a big ball of smoke and fire everywhere with big pieces of aircraft rolling down the hill," police official Haji Taj Gul said.

Health officials said DNA tests would be the only way to identify many of the remains.

"Nobody survived," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Express TV. "It's a big tragedy. It's really a big tragedy." Officials suggested the flight had been diverted due to bad weather, but it was unclear why the jet was flying so low and close to the Margalla Hills -- off the normal route for aircraft arriving from Karachi. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said the black box had not yet been recovered, after earlier announcing that it had been found.

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