RAWALPINDI: None of the 33 persons including five members of crew who were on board the PIA Fokker plane which crashed yesterday [Dec 8] on its flight from Gilgit to Rawalpindi has survived, according to PIA. A PIA spokesman said here today that after strenuous efforts by the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force, the wreckage of the plane was located by a Pakistan Army aviation helicopter on a thickly forested steep mountain slope covered with snow about 9,000 feet high, above village Maidan, about eight miles south of Jalkot, situated on the Indus Valley road.

... According to another report ... army jawans had reached the wreckage of the crashed plane and were constructing a road to carry the bodies and the debris towards a safer place. The report said the plane had crashed in a jungle without any road near the crash site. [The source] said that a party of villagers from Maidan, who had earlier managed to reach the site, reported ... no survivors. President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has learnt of the tragic accident with . sorrow and has directed that his personal condolences should be conveyed to the next of kin of the victims. . .