At least 68 people died when a Yeti airlines flight crashed on its approach to the tourist town Pokhara.
You can also get in touch in the following ways: Of the passengers, 53 were said to be Nepalese. There was huge smoke coming from the flames of the plane. Four years earlier 51 people were killed when a flight travelling from Bangladesh caught fire as it landed in Kathmandu. "The pilot tried his best to not hit civilisation or any home," she added. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. There was also one passenger each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France among others. "By the time I was there the crash site was already crowded. "There was a small space right beside the Seti River and the flight hit the ground in that small space." This Himalayan nation, home to some of the most breath-taking mountains in the world, has some of the most difficult terrain to navigate. The prime minister of Nepal declared Monday a national day of mourning, and the government set up a panel to investigate the cause of the disaster. At least 68 people died when a flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed and caught fire on Sunday morning.
Anju Khatiwada joined Yeti Airlines in 2010, four years after her husband died while piloting a plane for the same airline.
“Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla,” airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula told Reuters, referring to Khatiwada. Dipak Pokhrel also flew for the Nepali airline, but died when a small passenger plane he was flying went down minutes before landing. [rolled from side to side before crashing in a gorge near Pokhara airport](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/16/nepal-plane-crash-facebook-live-video) and catching fire, according to eyewitness accounts and a [video of the crash posted on social media](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jan/15/video-appears-to-show-plane-moments-before-nepal-crash-video-report).
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.
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.