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Dead body of a boy that fell from a plane on a rooftop of a residential apartment in Al-Faisal Town area located near Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore has been identified. He was Qasim Siddique of Darogawala. However, his friend Jamshed is still missing. Police believed that the boy presumably fell down from the Dubai-bound flight and his remains were found on the rooftop of one Haji Muhammad Afzal, an employee of the PTCL and resident of Al-Faisal Town. Dozens of locals in Al-Faisal Town came out of their residences soon after they heard a huge bang that took place exactly at 9.22 pm on Thursday night.Investigation is underway on different aspects of the case. One line of the investigation is whether the boy was a daily wager or mechanic at the airport, who managed to enter into the landing gear of the aircraft to reach Dubai. The President also ordered to submit report of the incident to him. Sources in Civil Aviation said that an Airblue flight took off for Dubai from the Lahore Airport at about 9.18 pm. The plane was at low altitude (about 250-feet high) when the incident took place.
