All 48 aboard Pakistan International Airlines PK-661 declared dead in Abbottabad crash

All 48 aboard the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) that crashed near Abbottabad on 7 December have been declared dead.

"There are no survivors, no one has survived," The Express tribune quoted Muhammad Azam Saigol, chairman of the PIA, as saying in a press conference late on Wednesday.

He said that the ATR-42 aircraft had undergone regular maintenance and had passed an 'A-check' certification in October, conducted after every 500 hours of flight operations.

"I think that there was no technical error or human error; obviously there will be a proper investigation," Saigol said.

"The flight was on its way to Islamabad from Chitral and carried 42 passengers, five crew members and one ground engineer on board," said PIA spokesperson Daniyal Gilani.