A Pakistan International Airlines plane with about 47 people on board has crashed in the mountainous north of the country, police and the civil aviation authority said. PIA said a plane bound for the capital, Islamabad, from the northern town of Chitral lost contact with the control tower en route. The aircraft was carrying “around 40 people”, the airline said in a statement. The civil aviation authority said 47 people were on board. It is not clear whether there were any casualties. Laiq Shah, a senior police official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said the plane crashed in the Havelian area of the province. Geo News and Dawn News, citing civil aviation sources, said contact with flight PK661 was lost at about 4.30pm local time (11.30am GMT). More details soon …]]>