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Official: Pakistan plane crash 'black box' found

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-07-31 17:22

Pakistani rescue workers wait for helicopters to collect dead bodies at the site of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. [Agencies]

ISLAMABAD - An official says recovery workers have found the "black box" flight data recorder from the wreckage of the worst-ever plane in Pakistan.

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The crash in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, killed all 152 people aboard the Airblue flight on Wednesday.

Ramzan Sajid of the Capital Development Authority, a government agency, says the flight recorder was found Saturday. He did not know what condition it was in.

The recorder has been handed to aviation officials.