{"id":548269,"date":"2023-01-18T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T05:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548269"},"modified":"2023-01-18T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T07:36:19","slug":"nepal-plane-crash-searchers-rappel-fly-drones-to-find-last-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-plane-crash-searchers-rappel-fly-drones-to-find-last-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in Nepal&#8217;s second-biggest city on Tuesday to search for two people unaccounted for after the country&#8217;s deadliest plane crash in 30 years killed at least 70 people.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult terrain and inclement weather was hampering rescue efforts near the tourist city of Pokhara, where the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed in clear weather on Sunday just before landing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is thick fog here now. We are sending search and rescue personnel using ropes into the gorge where parts of the plane fell and was in flames,&#8221; Ajay K.C., a police official in Pokhara who is part of the rescue efforts, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in Nepal&#8217;s second-biggest city on Tuesday to search for two people unaccounted for after the country&#8217;s deadliest plane crash in 30 years killed at least 70 people. Difficult terrain and inclement weather was hampering rescue efforts near the tourist city of Pokhara, where the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed in clear weather on Sunday just before landing. &#8220;There is thick fog here now. We are sending search and rescue personnel using ropes into the gorge where parts of the plane fell and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}