44 people have been killed after an aircraft carrying 72 people including four crew members crashed in Nepal.
The plane, a twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was flying from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara on Sunday when it crashed.
Pokhara is a bustling tourist town about 200km (124 miles) west of Kathmandu.
Nepal Police spokesperson, Tek Prasad Rai said no survivors have been found so far.
“Thirty bodies have been recovered and sent to hospital. Another 14 bodies are still lying at the crash site and authorities are bringing in a crane to move them,” Jagannath Niroula, spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority, revealed.
According to Al Jazeera, locals in Pokhara asserted weather and visibility was good when the plane crashed.
But eyewitnesses said the plane was having problems before it crashed into a gorge close to the airport.
The crash is Nepal’s deadliest since March 2018, when a US-Bangla Dash 8 turboprop flight from Dhaka crashed on landing in Kathmandu, killing 51 of the 71 people on board, according to Aviation Safety Network.
In May, a plane owned by Tara Air crashed less than 20 minutes after taking off from Pokhara.
At least 309 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest where the weather can change suddenly and make for hazardous conditions.
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