Scores of passengers were feared dead after an airliner carrying 152 people crashed in Pakistan today.

All 45 passengers and crew on a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane were killed today when it crashed soon after take-off on a domestic flight in eastern Pakistan.

A Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane crashed soon after take-off on a domestic flight Monday in eastern Pakistan, and many of the 45 people on board were feared dead.

The Pakistani air force chief was killed in this morning's plane crash in a remote region of north-western Pakistan. All 17 people on board were killed, the government said.

A Pakistani military plane carrying 17 people, including the head of the air force, has crashed in a remote region of north-western Pakistan, a senior Air Force official said today.