Nepal Plane Crash LIVE Updates: 70 Bodies Found So Far, 48 Are Being Taken To Kathmandu By Helicopter
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70 bodies have been found so far from the crash site where a Nepal plane met with an accident. A total of 72 people were on board the plane.
22 bodies have been identified which will be handed over to their family, rest of the 48 bodies are being taken to Kathmandu by helicopter.
Two bides have been handed over after doctors conducted a postmortem. Rest 20 will be given to the family members once the process of postmortem is completed.
Inputs: Sanjay Tripathi
Kin of people who were on board the Nepal plane that crashed on Sunday killing 69 people while a search is on for the remaining three.
Nepal Plane Crash: Black box of the crashed aircraft has been found.
Nepal Plane Crash: 69 bodies have been found so far from the crash site where a Nepal plane crashed on Sunday. Search is underway for the remaining three passengers.
Bodies of 36 passengers have been identified so far.
Nepal Aircraft Crash | The search and rescue operations have resumed in Pokhara, a day after a Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed here.
Nepal Aircraft Crash | Weather conditions hamper the search and rescue operation. Operations are yet to resume, a day after the aircraft crash at Pokhara airport, reported ANI.
Nepal Aircraft Crash | "We haven’t rescued anyone alive from the crash site," Krishna Prasad Bhandari, Spokesperson of Nepal Army, reported ANI.
Of the five Indians who were feared dead in the plane crash in Nepal on Sunday, four were planning to participate in paragliding activities in the tourist hub of Pokhara, a local resident said, reported PTI.
The Nepal government has instructed concerned authorities to conduct a technical inspection of all domestic flights after a Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people on board, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened Pokhara airport on Sunday, killing at least 68 people, reported PTI.
Nepal Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' along with Home Minister Rabi Lamicchane will visit Pokhara today where a Yeti Airlines passenger aircraft crashed this morning with 72 people onboard, reported ANI. Officials have confirmed 29 deaths.
Meanwhile, a five-member committee has been formed to investigate the reasons for the crash.
In the wake of Yeti Airlines crash near Pokhara, the Nepal government has announced one-day national mourning as the death toll rose to 29, reported ANI.
"We have recovered 29 bodies so far and (we) have also sent some survivors to the hospital for treatment," Gurudatta Dhakal, assistant chief official in Kaski district, told AFP.
After the Yeti Airlines crash, the India Embassy has released helpline numbers as five Indians were onboard the ill-fated aircraft. "Embassy is in touch with local authorities and is monitoring the situation," it said.
Kathmandu Helpline: +977-9851107021
Pokhara Helpline: +977-9856037699
Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiradtiya Scindia took to Twitter to express his grief over the loss of lives in Nepal's Pokhara where a passenger aircraft with 72 people onboard crashed. As per media reports, 32 people have been reported dead in the incident.
"The loss of lives in a tragic plane crash in Nepal is extremely unfortunate. My thoughts & prayers are with the families of the bereaved. Om Shanti," he wrote.
32 people onboard the ill-fated Yeti Airlines from Kathmandu to Pokhara which crashed this morning were killed, reported the Associated Press. Nepal Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' reached Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport and the Nepal government has summoned an emergency cabinet meeting.
The Yeti Airlines' passenger aircraft which crashed this morning near Pokhara with 72 people onboard had 13 foreign nationals including 5 Indians, 4 Russians, one Irish, 2 Korean, and one Argentinian and French national each along with 53 Nepalese, said the Airport Authority, reported ANI. Two infants were also onboard.
Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' reached Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport after a passenger aircraft of the Yeti Airlines which took off from Kathmandu crashed near Pokhara this morning with 72 people onboard.
16 dead bodies have been recovered from the crash site where a passenger aircraft of Yeti Airlines with 72 people onboard crashed near Pokhara, said a Nepal Army spokesperson.
Meanwhile, the Nepal government has summnoed an emergency cabinet meeting regarding the incident, reported ANI.
Following Yeti Airlines aircraft crash near Pokhara with 72 people onbaord, the Nepal government has summoned an emergency cabinet meeting, reported ANI
Background
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Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 which took off from the capital Kathmandu crashed near Pokhara, where it was to land, with 72 people onboard according to several media reports. As per the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the plane took off at 10:33 am from Kathmandu.
While landing at the Pokhara airport, the aircraft crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport. There were a total of 68 passengers and four crew members on board.
Of the 72 passengers onboard, 52 were Nepalese and 13 were foreign nationals including 5 Indians, 4 Russians, 2 Koreans and one Irish, Argentinian and French national each. Two infants were also onboard.
The pilots of the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Nepal's resort city of Pokhara may have failed to fully deploy the wing flaps while attempting to land, leading to a stall, a media report said on Thursday. On January 15, a Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed into a gorge near the newly-built airport in Pokhara, killing 72 all on board, including five Indians, in the country's worst air disaster in 30 years.
An aircraft coming to land has the flaps at the back of the wings fully down to provide more control at low speed and prevent stalling, the Kathmandu Post reported.
The exact reason behind the crash will be known only after an examination of the flight data recorder, or the black box, the report added. A nine-member team from France is also enquiring with the airlines' staff and concerned authorities in Pokhara to understand details of the ATR-72 aircraft crash, according to an official from Yeti Airlines.
Meanwhile, Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' on Thursday met with the grieving families of the people who were killed in the Yeti Airlines plane crash in the resort city of Pokhara. Prachanda reached the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to meet the families. Expressing his condolences to the families, the prime minister directed the hospital authorities to speed up the identification of the bodies, make the process scientific and hand over the bodies to the relatives soon, his office said.
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