The Times also reporting
Pakistan plane crash: pilots tried to land with wheels up
The Pakistani airliner that crashed into houses close to Karachi airport on Friday had aborted an initial attempt to land a few minutes earlier without its wheels extended, officials said yesterday.
An extraordinary sequence of events
led to the loss of 97 lives, with only two passengers aboard the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight surviving when the Airbus A320 came down a mile from the runway in the densely populated Model Colony neighbourhood and burst into flames. Nineteen houses were damaged but only four people on the ground were injured.
Rest of article paywalled, so don't know what "officials" they refer to. Maybe someone has access?