SCREAMS AND FIRE
Shahid Ahmed, 45, was at the airport waiting for his mother to arrive. When he reached the crash site he saw rescuers retrieving bodies and people taking selfies.
"There was no one responsible at the site, people were busy posing for pictures," said a distraught Ahmed, who lost his mother, Dishad Begum, 75, who was also flying to Karachi for Eid.
After scouring the site and failing to find his mother, Ahmed went to look for her in hospitals.
"There was no list of the dead or injured at any of the hospitals, it was all chaos and mismanagement," said Ahmed, who sobbed as he recounted the ordeal.
"Searching for our mother's body was a nightmare."
One of the survivors, engineer Muhammad Zubair, told Geo News the pilot came down to land, briefly touched down, then pulled up again.
He announced he was going to make to make a second try shortly before the plane crashed, Zubair said from hospital.
"I could hear screams from all directions. Kids and adults. All I could see was fire. I couldn't see any people – just hear their screams," he said.
Rahmaan said his family was still in shock.
"There's no Eid in our home," he said.
Rahmaan said he took some comfort from knowing his parents always wanted to be with each other.
"Whatever's happened, whatever the reason behind it, they always wanted to be together. At the end, they were together."
