Karachi, July 9 -- The wreckage of the Boeing 737 cargo plane was found in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, nearly 12 hours after the aircraft went missing off the Karachi coast, while search operations continued to locate five crew members onboard, according to the Pakistan Airports Authority.

The Pakistan Navy (PN) and Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA), after an extensive search and rescue operation in the deep sea, located and identified the wreckage of the K2 Airways Cargo Boeing 737. The debris was recovered around 53 nautical miles south of Pakistan's Ormara, the authority said in a statement.

"PN and PMSA after 12 hours of Search & Rescue operations in deep Sea have successfully located and identified wreckage of K2 Airways C...