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68 DEAD, 4 MISSING AFTER PLANE CRASHES IN NEPAL RESORT TOWN
By UPENDRA MAN SINGH, SHEIKH SAALIQ and ANISH BHATTARAI17 minutes ago
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A woman cries as the body of a relative, victim of a plane crash, is brought to
a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. A plane making a 27-minute
flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to
land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At
least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck,
the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (AP Photo/Yunish
Gurung)
POKHARA, Nepal (AP) — A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town
crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport,
killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported
hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country’s deadliest
airplane accident in three decades.
Hours after dark, scores of onlookers crowded around the crash site near the
airport in the resort town of Pokhara as rescue workers combed the wreckage on
the edge of the cliff and in the ravine below. Officials suspended the search
for the four missing people overnight and planned to resume looking Monday.
Local resident Bishnu Tiwari, who rushed to the crash site near the Seti River
to help search for bodies, said the rescue efforts were hampered by thick smoke
and a raging fire.
“The flames were so hot that we couldn’t go near the wreckage. I heard a man
crying for help, but because of the flames and smoke we couldn’t help him,”
Tiwari said.
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It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, Nepal’s Civil Aviation
Authority said.
A witness said he saw the aircraft spinning violently in the air after it began
descending to land, watching from the terrace of his house. Finally, Gaurav
Gurung said, the plane fell nose-first towards its left and crashed into the
gorge.
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The aviation authority said the aircraft last made contact with the airport from
near Seti Gorge at 10:50 a.m. before crashing.
The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was flying
from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, located 200 kilometers (125 miles)
west. It was carrying 68 passengers including 15 foreign nationals, as well as
four crew members, Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The
foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each
from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France.
Images and videos shared on Twitter showed plumes of smoke billowing from the
crash site, about 1.6 kilometers (nearly a mile) away from Pokhara International
Airport. The aircraft’s fuselage was split into multiple parts that were
scattered down the gorge.
At least 68 dead after plane crashes in Nepal
A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge
Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68
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Firefighters carried bodies, some burned beyond recognition, to hospitals where
grief-stricken relatives had assembled. At Kathmandu airport, family members
appeared distraught as they were escorted in and at times exchanged heated words
with officials as they waited for information.
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Tek Bahadur K. C., a senior administrative officer in the Kaski district, said
he expected rescue workers to find more bodies at the bottom of the gorge.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who rushed to Tribhuvan International Airport
in Kathmandu after the crash, set up a panel to investigate the accident.
”The incident was tragic. The full force of the Nepali army, police has been
deployed for rescue,” he said.
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it’s still trying to
confirm the fate of two South Korean passengers and has sent staff to the scene.
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Omar Gutiérrez, governor of Argentina’s Neuquen province, reported on his
official Twitter account that an Argentine passanger on the flight was Jannet
Palavecino from his province.
The Facebook page of Palavecino says she was manager of the Hotel Suizo in
Neuquen city.
On the page, she described herself as a lover of travel, and of adventure
tourism. “I am passionate about the mountains! Riding my bike in cycling. I love
my garden and the countryside. I like to paint!” she wrote.
Her account has many photos of her in the mountains.
Pokhara is the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit, a popular hiking trail in the
Himalayas. The city’s new international airport began operations only two weeks
ago.
The type of plane involved, the ATR 72, has been used by airlines around the
world for short regional flights. Introduced in the late 1980s by a French and
Italian partnership, the aircraft model has been involved in several deadly
accidents over the years.
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In Taiwan two earlier accidents involving ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircrafts
happened just months apart.
In July 2014, a TransAsia ATR 72-500 flight crashed while trying to land on the
scenic Penghu archipelago between Taiwan and China, killing 48 people onboard.
An ATR 72-600 operated by the same Taiwanese airline crashed shortly after
takeoff in Taipei in February 2015 after one of its engines failed and the
second was shut down, apparently by mistake.
The 2015 crash, captured in dramatic footage that showed the plane striking a
taxi as it hurtled out of control, killed 43, and prompted authorities to ground
all Taiwanese-registered ATR 72s for some time. TransAsia ceased all flights in
2016 and later went out of business.
ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday’s crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet.
According to plane tracking data from flightradar24.com, the aircraft was 15
years old and “equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data.” It was
previously flown by India’s Kingfisher Airlines and Thailand’s Nok Air before
Yeti took it over in 2019, according to records on Airfleets.net.
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Yeti Airlines has a fleet of six ATR72-500 planes, company spokesperson
Sudarshan Bartaula said.
Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Mount
Everest, has a history of air crashes. According to the Flight Safety
Foundation’s Aviation Safety database, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in
Nepal since 1946.
Sunday’s crash is Nepal’s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 people aboard a
Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it plowed into a hill as
it tried to land in Kathmandu.
The European Union has banned airlines from Nepal from flying into the 27-nation
bloc since 2013, citing weak safety standards. In 2017, the International Civil
Aviation Organization cited improvements in Nepal’s aviation sector, but the EU
continues to demand administrative reforms.
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This story corrects the surname of Omar Gutiérrez, governor of Argentina’s
Neuquen province.
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Saaliq reported from New Delhi. Elise Morton in London, Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul,
South Korea, and Adam Schreck in Bangkok contributed reporting.
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