Seventy-two people -- four crew members and 68 passengers -- were on board the ATR-72 plane operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines when it crashed, Yeti Airlines spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula said.
Thirty-seven were men, 25 were women, three were children and three were infants, Nepal's civil aviation authority reported.First responders were still working to locate the last eight passengers, but they were "losing hope" of finding them alive, Fanindra Mani Pokharel, the joint secretary of Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs, told CNN. A local official had previously expressed hope that some survivors might be found.
The plane was last in contact with Pokhara airport at about 10:50 a.m. local time, about 18 minutes after takeoff. It then went down in the nearby Seti River Gorge. First responders from the Nepal Army and various police departments have been deployed to the crash site and are carrying out a rescue operation, the civil aviation authorities said in a statement.
Nepal's Yeti Airlines said it was canceling all regular flights on Monday, January 16, in mourning for the victims of the crash.
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