While landing at Pokhara airport at around 11 am, the plane crashed on the banks of the Seti river between the old airport and the new airport.
Rescuers engaged in rescue work after plane crash in Nepal
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Nepal Of Pokhara Airport while landing on a Sunday airplane crash In which 68 passengers and 4 crew members have died tragically. It is being told that there were 10 foreign passengers in the plane, out of which 5 were Indians. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that the 9N-ANCATR-72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines had taken off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 10.33 am. While landing at Pokhara airport at around 11 am, the plane crashed on the banks of the Seti river between the old airport and the new airport. Read all the major updates related to this horrific accident so far here…
- An official of Yeti Airlines said that the five Indians on board the plane have been identified as Abhishek Kushwaha, Vishal Sharma, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, Sonu Jaiswal and Sanjana Jaiswal.
- A five-member inquiry committee has been announced under the direction of Nagendra Ghimire regarding the Nepal plane crash, which will investigate the accident. In this committee, former Civil Aviation Secretary Nagendra Ghimire, aeronautical expert Deepak Prasad Banstola, retired senior pilot Sunil Thapa and air maintenance engineer Tekraj Jung Thapa have been kept in the committee.
- Nepal plane accident is the worst accident in the last 30 years. According to earlier facts, in 1992, Pakistan’s International Airline Airbus A300 crashed in Kathmandu. 167 people were killed in this accident.
- The Indian Embassy tweeted, A Yeti Airlines ATR-72 aircraft coming from Kathmandu crashed near Pokhara airport today. According to the information provided by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, five Indian nationals were also on board this aircraft. It said that the embassy is in touch with the local authorities and monitoring the situation.
- Read here how many passengers of which country were on board the flight – 53 were from Nepal, 5 from India, 4 from Russia, 1 from Ireland, 2 from Korea, 1 from Argentina and one from France.
- According to the airlines, foreign nationals were also on board the plane. The condition of the Indian passengers is not yet known. The Chief District Officer of Kaski district, Tek Bahadur KC, was quoted as saying that the plane crashed in the Seti river valley and the rescue operation is still underway.
- Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda called an emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers after the accident. In a meeting held on Sunday afternoon, it was decided to declare January 16 as a public holiday to mourn the loss of lives in the Yeti Airlines plane crash.
- Prachanda expressed grief over the accident and directed the Ministry of Home Affairs, security personnel and all government agencies to carry out rescue and relief operations immediately. The government announced that a five-member committee would be set up to investigate the accident.
- Pokhara International Airport was closed for flights to and from today following the plane crash.
- Police said it was not possible to deploy enough manpower. Police said that it took a lot of effort to control the fire as the fire engine could not reach the ditch where the accident took place. As a result, the fire has not yet been controlled.
- Kaski’s police spokesperson Gyan Bahadur Khadka said that due to the difficult terrain, there is a problem in the rescue operation. He said, we are trying to save people as soon as possible. But there is a problem due to geographical difficulties. He said, there is a crowd of thousands of people. Due to the crowd, there was a problem in the rescue operation and ambulances and fire engines also had difficulty in reaching there.
- Nepal has a very poor record of plane accidents due to the sudden change of weather and airstrips built in inaccessible places. The last major air crash in the country was on May 29 last year when a Tara Air plane crashed in the mountainous Mustang district, killing all 22 people on board, including four members of an Indian family.
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