Plane With 19 On Board Crashes At Kathmandu Airport
The bodies of 18 out of the 19 people on board a Kathmandu flight were recovered after the plane crashed at a Nepal airport on Wednesday, local media said.
The passengers, comprising crew and technical staff, were on board the Pokhara-bound Saurya Airlines plane when it caught on fire around 11 am, the Nepal military said.
The pilot of the aircraft has been taken to a hospital, a security official deployed at the airport told news agency PTI.
The pilot of the aircraft has been taken to a hospital, a security official deployed at the airport told news agency PTI. The plane burst into flames after it skidded off the runway as it began to take off, a spokesperson of the airport told NDTV.
The CRJ200 plane, which can seat 50 passengers, did not gain any altitude on takeoff, slipped off the runway and fell down an embankment and caught fire. Videos from the spot show a large fire with plumes of smoke rising near the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Fire fighters and the Nepal army are at the spot. The cause of the fire is not known yet.