February 25, 2003	Tuesday	Zul Hijjah 23, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: Investigation has been ordered into the Cessna 402 crash on Monday in which eight people were reportedly killed near Karachi.

The aircraft belonging to Edhi Welfare Trust air ambulance was on a chartered flight to Jazzak Airfield in Balochistan, said a Press Information Department press release on Monday.

The aircraft had eight people on board which included the Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries, Juma Muhammed Muhammedi, three other Afghans, and a Chinese national.

The plane disappeared from the air controller’s radar at about 8:30am, the press release said.

Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Navy have begun rescue operations and the wreckage of the Cessna 402 have been located in the sea seven nautical miles west-north west of Churna Island, near Sonmiani beach.

A PN spokesman said the five bodies recovered so far have been shifted to PNS Shifa.