UPDATE #1 : The aircraft was an A320 that originated in Turkey. “Airblue” is the second largest carrier in Pakistan. Crash site is a remote location. Aerial images show little left of the aircraft.
**UPDATE #**2 Flight was from Karachi to Islamabad - initial reports that it originated in Turkey have not been confirmed. Weather may have played a factor as hills shrouded in fog - this is the monsoon season. First responders have recovered 5 bodies so far
UDPATE #4 Authorities now say that there are no survivors among the 152 passengers and crew. Two Americans are among the dead. The Aircraft is an A321 not 320 as earlier reported.
Witnesses described the plane as being lower than it should have been.
The accident aircraft was an Airbus A321-200 with registration AP-BJB and Manufacturer’s Serial Number 1218, built in 2000. This was the first fatal crash for the A321, and the second hull-loss of the type. The aircraft had originally been delivered to Aero Lloyd and used by Aero Flight before being taken up by Airblue in 2006. It had accumulated approximately 34,000 flight hours in some 13,500 flights.
A previous incident to AP-BJB occured on 30 December 2008 when the aircraft was on an international scheduled passenger flight from Islamabad to Manchester, United Kingdom via Trabzon, Turkey. On Approach to Trabzon, it was struck by lightning which caused damage to the aircraft’s electrical systems. A successful emergency landing was made at Trabzon.
The METAR in force at the time of the accident was OPRN 280300Z 05016KT 2000 RA FEW015ST SCT040 BKN100 FEW030TCU 24/23 1006.5=.
It’s feet. The only places that actually uses the metric system in their altitudes are central/eastern portions of Russia, Mongolia, and parts of China.
EDIT:
RVRs would generally be indicated with the R in front of the runway with the number of feet visible. And I am wrong. This is in meters, not feet:
Man. . .