Nepal plane crash 2023

How did the crash unfold? Yeti Airlines Flight NYT691 crashed near the resort town of Pokhara at about 10:50 a.m. local time, the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority ...

The aviation authority blamed “hostile topography” and “diverse weather patterns” in a 2019 safety report, noting that Nepal claims eight of the world’s 14 tallest mountains. [Nepal has been accused of weak safety standards] [The European Union has banned airlines from Nepal from flying into the 27-nation bloc since 2013, citing weak safety standards. The plane was completing a 27-minute flight from Kathmandu, and Prem Nath Thakur, general manager of the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, said the plane had been granted landing clearance. "The ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer." "Aircraft require air to fly in and the air is more rarefied at about (2,700 feet) elevation," Bartsch said. The fire was getting very intense and it made it difficult for us to approach." [Search for the missing in Nepal crash underway](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2023/01/15/yeti-airlines-crash-nepal/11058763002/) [How did the crash unfold?] [Yeti Airlines Flight NYT691 crashed near the resort town of Pokhara at about 10:50 a.m. The report said many accidents happened at airports that had short runways – and most were from pilot error. Sanjay was flying to Pokhara for the birth. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, an army spokesperson, told China's state-run ] [Xinhua](https://english.news.cn/) news agency that many bodies were burned beyond recognition and that 80% of the plane had been gutted by fire. At least 41 of the victims had been identified, but authorities said many bodies were burned beyond recognition. The search for the three missing people continued Monday.

Anju Khatiwada joined Yeti Airlines in 2010, four years after her husband died while piloting a plane for the same airline.

“Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla,” airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula told Reuters, referring to Khatiwada. Dipak Pokhrel also flew for the Nepali airline, but died when a small passenger plane he was flying went down minutes before landing. [rolled from side to side before crashing in a gorge near Pokhara airport](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/16/nepal-plane-crash-facebook-live-video) and catching fire, according to eyewitness accounts and a [video of the crash posted on social media](https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jan/15/video-appears-to-show-plane-moments-before-nepal-crash-video-report).

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.

Nepal's aviation authority has released the names and nationalities of the passengers on the Yeti Air crash yesterday, 70 of whom have been confirmed dead.

“Myron was one of the loves of my life. The model has been in service since 1988, while the specific plane that crashed was about 15 years old. "The current safety situation in Nepal does not leave us any other choice than to put all of its carriers on the EU air safety list. Pilots and aviation experts largely describe it as reliable, with one expert A truly kind, fun, energetic man. He has put so much into his short life that most of us couldn’t fit into our lifetime. I can’t speak to them being dangerous.” Almost everywhere in the world, passenger aviation has become extraordinarily safe. The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft was carrying 72 people – four crew members and 68 passengers – when it crashed near the airport of the tourist city of Pokhara on Sunday. A British man has been identified as a passenger on the plane involved in a deadly crash in Nepal on Sunday. The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft was carrying 72 people – four crew members and 68 passengers – when it crashed near the airport of the tourist city of We are sending search and rescue personnel using ropes into the gorge where parts of the plane fell and was in flames,” Ajay KC, a police official in Pokhara told Reuters.

Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal on Tuesday to search for two passengers still unaccounted for ...

We will continue to look for them," K.C. "There were small children among the passengers. "There is thick fog here now.

The world witnessed a horrific site when the Nepalese passenger plane crashed in Pokhara on Sunday. Claiming 68 lives, Yeti Airlines's 72-seater passenger ...

Kind of strange that you felt a draft coming in." Sharing that he expected 'the worst one day' after his experience, Bahl said he felt a gush of air coming from the corner of a window mid-air. Some people shared similar experiences when they boarded an aircraft in Nepal.