Pakistani plane crash, all 47 on board killed

All 47 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight that crashed near Abbottabad were killed, the airline said. A pilot made a mayday call, saying he had lost control of one of the two engines, according to Azam Saigol, PIA's chairman.
"We were confident that the plane could land with one working engine," Saigol said. "This is a tragedy. We are not absolving ourselves of any connection to this incident."
According to Saigol, it's "highly unlikely that this was a terrorist attack." He added that the bodies of the victims would be transferred to hospitals in Islamabad at 12:30 p.m. local time. The airline said Flight PK-661 was carrying 42 passengers and five crew members when it lost contact with a control tower on its way from Chitral to Islamabad. It crashed into the mountains near Abbottabad and Havelian. Two infants were among the passengers, according to a passenger manifest provided to CNN by Pakistan International Airlines.

Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said 46 of the 47 bodies have been recovered. Pop star-turned-religious artist Junaid Jamshed was among those on board, his manager, Arsalan Khan, told CNN.
The aircraft was an ATR-42 twin-engine propeller plane. The aircraft's manufacturer, ATR, is a joint venture between Airbus Group and Italy's Leonardo. The airline's chairman said the captain had 12,000 hours of flying experience and was also a flight trainer for the ATR-42 plane.