At least 68 killed in Yeti Airline plane crash in Nepal: Rescue official
At least 68 people were killed when a Nepalese passenger plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in central Nepal’s resort city of Pokhara on Sunday, a rescue official said.
Yeti Airlines’ 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).
“So far, dead bodies of 68 people have been recovered from the crash site, an official at the Search and Rescue, Coordination Committee of the CAAN told PTI over the phone.
