At least 68 people have been killed after a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, with an Australian believed to be among those on board. 7NEWS
Nearly 350 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal - home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest - where sudden weather changes can make for hazardous conditions.The plane on Sunday made contact with Pokhara airport from Seti Gorge at 10.50am, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.“Half of the plane is on the hillside,” local resident Arun Tamu told Reuters, saying he reached the site minutes after the plane went down.
The government has set up a panel to investigate the cause of the crash and it is expected to report within 45 days, Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel told reporters. Passengers included five Indians, four Russians and one Irish, two South Korean, one Australian, one French and one Argentinian citizen. A Pokhara Airport spokesman said the aircraft crashed as it approached the airport, adding that the “plane cruised at 12,500 feet and was on a normal descent”.Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 said on Twitter the Yeti Airlines aircraft was 15 years old and equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data.Its fleet consists of six ATR 72-500s, including the one that crashed.
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