Originally Posted by
Nemrytter
Damn strong gravity they have over there.
The altitude is given in hrs:mins:secs so perhaps the journalist confused the secs to be millisecs. Local reporting has been quite poor with TV channels wanting to be the first to show "breaking news". At one channel, they had a pseudo-religious scholar-cum-failed politician-cum-tv prize show host-cum-entertainer-cum-newly turned anchor interviewing a (failed) pop singer and tv actor on technical aspects of the flight.
The "known to have engine problems" is being (mis-)reported because the said plane has had an incident in 2014 with left engine shutting down during a flight from Skardu to Islamabad. It is not because of some known issues immediately prior to take-off.
There are several key strategic installments near that area so its highly likely that additional information (radar) is available but not released publically.
Apparently, the pilot did mention he had problems with the left engine and also some (possibly credible) reports of people seeing fire on the plane prior to impact.
Also please update the title. This accident happened near
Havelian and not near
khyber