Nepal flight

Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal on Tuesday to search for two passengers still unaccounted for ...

We will continue to look for them," K.C. "There were small children among the passengers. "There is thick fog here now.

At least 70 people were killed when the ATR 72 aircraft crashed, making it Nepal's worst aviation disaster in 30 years.

The camera refocuses shortly after, with a fire seen blazing around an unidentified object. Advertisement His camera continued recording as the plane crashed and burst into flames.

Mr Sonu Jaiswal was smiling. The other passengers were chatting and laughing. Then, there was the sound of a deafening crash. Read more at straitstimes.com.

“The permission was granted. It is a real record,” Mr Shah told NDTV. There were flames and the sound of an engine screeching. We don’t ask why. Mr Jaiswal was with three of his friends, all from Ghazipur in India, who had gone to a grand shrine on the outskirts of Kathmandu dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva before they flew to Pokhara, a picturesque tourist town, to paraglide. [ a plane he was on crashed in the city of Pokhara, in Nepal.](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/at-least-68-killed-in-nepal-s-worst-air-crash-in-three-decades)

Difficult terrain and inclement weather hampering rescue efforts near Pokhara, where plane carrying 72 people crashed.

French and Canadian air accident investigators have said they plan to participate in the inquiry. Officials say the hope of finding anyone alive was “nil”. “There is thick fog here now.

A Facebook Live video purportedly showing the last terrifying moments inside the cabin on Yeti Airlines flight 691 before it crashed in Nepal on Sunday has ...

Of the bodies recovered, at least 41 have been identified, Yeti Airlines said in a statement Monday. “The tower controllers didn’t ask why the pilot wanted to use a different runway than originally planned since it wasn’t an issue technically from their end which runway the pilot chooses to land,” Niroula told CNN. The plane’s black box, which records flight data, was recovered on Monday and would be handed to CAAN, officials said. He added that he was watching a Facebook Live stream from Jaiswal during the flight. Several passengers can be heard conversing excitedly in a mix of Hindi and Punjabi; one person says, “Look at that body of water, it’s excellent,” as the plane passes by a lake. It shows a plane window with the wing seen outside as the aircraft banks sharply to the left.

A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash ...

The report said such accidents happened at airports that had short strips of runway for takeoff and landing and most were due to pilot error. South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it's still trying to confirm the fate of two South Korean passengers and has sent staff to the scene. Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes. ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday's crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet. It was previously flown by India's Kingfisher Airlines and Thailand's Nok Air before Yeti took it over in 2019, according to records on Airfleets.net. The type of plane involved, the ATR 72, has been used by airlines around the world for short regional flights. I heard a man crying for help, but because of the flames and smoke we couldn't help him," Tiwari said. She described herself as a lover of travel and adventure tourism. On Sunday, Twitter was awash with images that showed plumes of smoke billowing from the crash site, about 1.6 kilometers (nearly a mile) away from Pokhara International Airport. "The incident was tragic. Finally, Gaurav Gurung said, the plane fell nose-first towards its left and crashed into the gorge. "I saw that and I was shocked...

With 70 people dead and two others missing, the incident is the country's deadliest plane crash in the last three decades. A haunting recording of a passenger's ...

On 16 Jan, rescuers were able to find a voice recorder from the cockpit and a flight data recorder, which will help with investigations. They had planned to return to Kathmandu, BBC reports. They had been friends for many years, and often spent time together. [NDTV](https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/video-indian-passenger-shot-last-moments-of-nepal-plane-before-it-crashed-3695120) that rescuers were able to recover Jaiswal’s phone from the wreckage of the plane. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64287331) reports that Jaiswal’s relatives and friends have confirmed the authenticity of the footage. [Kadak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ1R8aTAx_Q), a Nepalese news channel on YouTube, Sonu Jaiswal was on the ill-fated flight headed for Pokhara, Nepal.

At least 70 people were killed when the ATR 72 aircraft crashed, making it Nepal's worst aviation disaster in 30 years.

The camera refocuses shortly after, with a fire seen blazing around an unidentified object. Advertisement His camera continued recording as the plane crashed and burst into flames.

More than 800 killed in around 109 air crashes in Nepal since 1955 as search going on for last one missing passenger in Sunday's deadliest crash - Anadolu ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. He said the deceased female pilot Khatiwada joined the airline in June 2010 and had flown aircraft for more than 6,396 hours in her career. and the aircraft was in good condition ... During the briefing, it was said the pilot took the plane to the gorge to protect the settlement. "There are many reasons for plane crashes, (and) it takes time to understand the actual reason. Bartaula, speaking to Anadolu from TU Teaching Hospital Kathmandu, where 48 dead bodies from the crash site had been brought, said: "We are still shocked (about) what had happened ... Weather was fair (with) no wind, nor was there any (air) traffic ... "This aircraft had done its first flight on the same route." According to Bartaula, the airline's spokesperson, it was around 11:03 a.m. we also don't know the cause … after 10-15 seconds, they only saw smoke and flames," Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson for Yeti Airlines, told Anadolu from Kathmandu. "(The airline's staff in Pokhara) saw the aircraft coming and approaching (the airport) …

Aviation experts say it appears the turboprop went into a stall at low altitude but it's unclear why.

In Taiwan, two accidents involving ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircrafts in 2014 and 2015 led to the planes being grounded for a period. Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes. The flight plummeted into a gorge on Sunday while on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport in the foothills of the Himalayas, killing all 72 aboard. Funerals for other victims, many of whom were from the area, are expected in the coming days. As a priest lit the funeral pyre, close friends of Paudel came together to reminisce. The aircraft's manufacturer, ATR, is headquartered in Toulouse.

The Yeti Airlines crash left no survivors, authorities said. Among the victims is Anju Khatiwada, a pilot who lost her husband in a plane crash in 2006.

His death was confirmed by the Central School of Dance and Drama in Brentwood, Essex, where he studied from the age of 10. At the age of 16, Crighton joined the Central School of Ballet, where he completed his vocational training. In a statement, they said Love “has been a rock to both of our families for many years and he has always lived his life to the fullest.” A friend who said she had traveled to Nepal with Palavecino shared photos of their treks through the Himalayas. The only Argentine on the plane, Palavecino was a 57-year-old mother, according to Argentine media. In her last Facebook post, Chhantyal marked the holiday by sending her well wishes to “all father mother, brothers and sisters” inside and outside Nepal. “We will miss you and always keep you in our memory,” Omar Gutierrez, the governor of Neuquén province, [wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/allegraforwentworth/posts/pfbid02C3PABY9413qUVMaveJnmPxJtAbNzuTCZ56rD9A4CudKDZsRiJigqQ83BWukyyCLFl). Khatiwada trained to fly in the United States. Myron Love was a fan of the outdoors who had been teaching at Bronte Public School in a suburb of Sydney. She had lost her husband — who was also a pilot — in another Yeti Airlines plane crash more than 16 years ago. Captain Anju Khatiwada was the co-pilot of Sunday’s flight.