Islamabad:
Officials say a small plane carrying 22 people has crashed near the airport in Pakistan's largest city after the pilot warned of engine troubles. Officials say there were no survivors.
The plane crashed Friday morning had just taken off from the southern city of Karachi. The pilot told the control tower minutes before the crash that there appeared to be some fault with the engine, said Pervez George, a spokesman for the country's Civil Aviation Authority.
The pilot was ordered to return to the airport, but as he was turning the aircraft, it went down in an open field, the spokesman said. The plane belonged to a private company and caught on fire after the crash.
No one survived, said Army Lt. Col. Noor Alam, a lead rescue official at the scene.