Nepal flight crash 2023

Difficult terrain and inclement weather hampering rescue efforts near Pokhara, where plane carrying 72 people crashed.

French and Canadian air accident investigators have said they plan to participate in the inquiry. Officials say the hope of finding anyone alive was “nil”. “There is thick fog here now.

A Facebook Live video purportedly showing the last terrifying moments inside the cabin on Yeti Airlines flight 691 before it crashed in Nepal on Sunday has ...

Of the bodies recovered, at least 41 have been identified, Yeti Airlines said in a statement Monday. “The tower controllers didn’t ask why the pilot wanted to use a different runway than originally planned since it wasn’t an issue technically from their end which runway the pilot chooses to land,” Niroula told CNN. The plane’s black box, which records flight data, was recovered on Monday and would be handed to CAAN, officials said. He added that he was watching a Facebook Live stream from Jaiswal during the flight. Several passengers can be heard conversing excitedly in a mix of Hindi and Punjabi; one person says, “Look at that body of water, it’s excellent,” as the plane passes by a lake. It shows a plane window with the wing seen outside as the aircraft banks sharply to the left.

A flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the crash site of the passenger plane that went down on approach to the Pokhara ...

The runway of Pokhara International Airport, for example, is 45 metres wide and 2,500 metres long. The Himalayan nation, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, has a troubling history of aviation accidents. “Throughout the flight, the transponder on 9N-ANC sent erroneous altitude and speed data. Officials stopped the search and rescue operation overnight after battling cloudy weather and poor visibility for hours. A witness told the newspaper that she was washing clothes in the front yard of her house when she saw the tilted plane. The plane made final contact with the airport at 10.50 a.m. The plane smashed into pieces and burst into flames after it plummeted into a gorge. Soldiers from the Nepal Army, the Armed Police Force personnel, the Nepal Police and locals rushed in to search for survivors. The fire was getting very intense and it made it difficult for us to approach closer,” the witness said. Moments before its scheduled landing, the aircraft crashed between the old airport and the new airport on the bank of the Seti River around 11 a.m. It remains unclear what caused the crash in non-windy weather, but the [black box of the crashed aircraft was recovered](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nepal-yeti-airlines-plane-crash-in-pokhara/article66382027.ece) on Monday. [crashed into a gorge on Sunday while attempting to land](https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nepal-plane-crash-five-indians-onboard-aircraft-confirms-embassy/article66380862.ece) at the newly opened international airport in the city of Pokhara, killing at least 68 on board.

The Yeti Airlines crash left no survivors, authorities said. Among the victims is Anju Khatiwada, a pilot who lost her husband in a plane crash in 2006.

His death was confirmed by the Central School of Dance and Drama in Brentwood, Essex, where he studied from the age of 10. At the age of 16, Crighton joined the Central School of Ballet, where he completed his vocational training. In a statement, they said Love “has been a rock to both of our families for many years and he has always lived his life to the fullest.” A friend who said she had traveled to Nepal with Palavecino shared photos of their treks through the Himalayas. The only Argentine on the plane, Palavecino was a 57-year-old mother, according to Argentine media. In her last Facebook post, Chhantyal marked the holiday by sending her well wishes to “all father mother, brothers and sisters” inside and outside Nepal. “We will miss you and always keep you in our memory,” Omar Gutierrez, the governor of Neuquén province, [wrote on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/allegraforwentworth/posts/pfbid02C3PABY9413qUVMaveJnmPxJtAbNzuTCZ56rD9A4CudKDZsRiJigqQ83BWukyyCLFl). Khatiwada trained to fly in the United States. Myron Love was a fan of the outdoors who had been teaching at Bronte Public School in a suburb of Sydney. She had lost her husband — who was also a pilot — in another Yeti Airlines plane crash more than 16 years ago. Captain Anju Khatiwada was the co-pilot of Sunday’s flight.