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Airblue Flight 202, which took off from Karachi at ten minutes to eight in the morning, had before the end of the next two hours crashed into the Margalla hills, killing all 152 people on board, including passengers and crew.

In the biggest ever air tragedy to take place within Pakistan in the aviation history of the country, it was also an incident that shook Islamabad; the last time the federal capital had experienced such a high death toll was during the Oct 8, 2005, earthquake when the collapse of an apartment building claimed 74 lives.

Low visibility due to the clouds and continuous rain was seen to have contributed to the crash and the weather hampered the rescue mission already made difficult due to the location of the crash.

As it hit the side of the Margalla hills, it slid down and landed in a relatively isolated area which was inaccessible by vehicles, even those being used by rescue teams.

But it was the poorly coordinated rescue operation at the Margalla Hills which highlighted yet again the state's complete inability to respond to any crisis -- be it man-made or natural.

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