PAKISTAN: SIX BODIES RECOVERED AFTER CHARTERED CESSNA AIRCRAFT CARRYING AN AFGHAN MINISTER AND SEVEN OTHERS CRASHED INTO THE SEA

Record ID: 584942

  • Title: PAKISTAN: SIX BODIES RECOVERED AFTER CHARTERED CESSNA AIRCRAFT CARRYING AN AFGHAN MINISTER AND SEVEN OTHERS CRASHED INTO THE SEA
  • Date: 25th February 2003
  • Summary: (W6) AT SEA (FEBRUARY 24, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. AERIAL SHOWING SHIP NEAR CRASH SITE; HELICOPTER OVERFLYING SITE; AERIAL OF SHIP AT SITE; HELICOPTER HOVERING OVER CRASH SITE/SHIP IN BACKGROUND (7 SHOTS) 0.41 2. MV INTERIOR HELICOPTER WITH PILOT IN COCKPIT; AV HELICOPTER FLYING 0.51 (W6) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (FEBRUARY 24, 2003)(REUTERS) 3. SLV NAVY OFFICIALS CARRYING DEAD BODY ON A STRETCHER AND PLACING STRETCHER IN NAVY AMBULANCE; MV ANOTHER BODY LOADED INTO AMBULANCE (6 SHOTS) 1.22 (U3) ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (FILE - FEBRUARY 23, 2003) (REUTERS) 4. MV AFGHAN MINISTER FOR PETROLEUM AND MINES JUMA MOHAMMAD MOHAMMADI (EXTREME RIGHT) AT NEWS CONFERENCE FOR JOINT NATURAL GAS PIPELINE PROJECT 1.24 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AFGHAN MINISTER FOR PETROLEUM AND MINES JUMA MOHAMMAD MOHAMMADI "Security is a concern. The Pakistan government has a commitment to support the project to make the project successful and make sure that the project is successfully implemented and maintained." 1.44 6. SCU FLAGS; MV JUMA MOHAMMAD MOHAMMADI 1.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: AT SEA, KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA2QICI7U4BVOY3KWLGZGGEPXZS
  • Story Text: Six bodies have been recovered after a chartered
    Cessna aircraft carrying an Afghan Minster and seven others
    crashed into the sea off Pakistan, the Pakistan Navy has said.

    The twin-engined Cessna 402 carrying Afghan Minister
    for Petroleum and Mines Juma Mohammad Mohammadi, four aides
    and Sun Changsheng, the chief executive of Chinese engineering
    firm MCC Resource Development Co, crashed west of the southern
    port of Karachi with eight people aboard.

    Pakistan Navy spokesman Commander Roshan Khayal said the
    wreckage had been found about 30 nautical miles offshore in
    the second fatal air crash in Pakistani territory in less than
    a week.

    Local police chief Syed Kamal Shah told reporters five
    bodies, including those of three Afghans and the two Pakistani
    pilots, had been identified of the six found.

    Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan
    called the crash "an unfortunate accident."
    Mohammadi had held talks in Pakistan at the weekend on a
    multi-billion dollar pipeline project that would link
    Turkmenistan and Pakistan via Afghanistan.

    His delegation had been traveling to a copper and gold
    mining project being run by the Chinese firm in Saindak, in
    Pakistan's Baluchistan province near the Afghan border, about
    750 km (468 miles) northwest of Karachi.

    Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister
    Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali issued a statement expressing shock
    and sorrow at the deaths of Mohammadi and the four members of
    his delegation and offering condolences to their families.

    An official of the Civil Aviation Authority said it was
    too early to say what caused the crash. The Meteorological
    Office said the weather had been clear and sunny at the time.

    Karzai's fragile U.S.-backed transitional administration
    has now lost three ministers in the past year.


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