A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight with 107 on board crashed in a residential area near the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. The Airbus A320 flight from Lahore was approaching the landing runway at the Karachi airport .

A video from the scene shows clouds of black smoke emerging from behind a residential building.

Dark plumes of smoke seen near the crash site. #PIA #ModelColony #MalirCantt #Karachi pic.twitter.com/bLBCmG1dXf

— Yusra Askari (@YusraSAskari) May 22, 2020

The flight contained 99 passengers on board and eight crew members. The accident occurred in the Model Colony in Malir. The aircraft was less than a minute away from its landing point.

Emergency services soon rushed in the area and several houses are said to have been damaged in the accident.

Pakistan  Ministry of Health and Population Welfare has declared emergency in all major hospitals of Karachi due to the plane crash, according to Meeran Yousuf, the media coordinator to the provincial health minister.In 2016, a Pakistan International Airlines plane burst into flames after one of its two turboprop engines failed while flying from the remote northern to Islamabad, killing more than 40 people.