Recovery operations continued late into the night at the remote site where a plane carrying 47 people crashed into a mountain in northern Pakistan, leaving no survivors.
The military said 40 bodies had been recovered and rescue efforts involved about 500 soldiers, doctors and paramedics.
The bodies were taken to the Ayub Medical Center in nearby Abbottabad, about 20km away.
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)-operated flight PK661 crashed en route from Chitral to the capital, Islamabad.
Junaid Jamshed, a well-known Pakistani pop star turned evangelical Muslim cleric, was among those feared dead, an airline official said.
PIA said the captain of the flight had reported losing power in one engine minutes before its plane lost contact with the control tower en route to the capital.
The airline said the plane crashed at 4.42pm local time in the Havelian area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, about 40km north of Islamabad.
Chitral, where the flight originated, is a popular tourist destination in Pakistan.
Irfan Elahi, the government's aviation secretary, told media the plane suffered engine problems but it was too early to determine the cause of the accident.
In a statement, PIA said the plane was carrying 47 people, including five crew members and 42 passengers.
Earlier, the airline had said there were 48 people on board.
The airline said two Austrian citizens and one Chinese citizen, all men, had been on board. They worked for for Austrian engineering group on a hydropower project in the north of the country, a spokesman for the company said.
