Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years killed 72 people on board.

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Nepal’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years killed 72 people on board.

January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

According to Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority, a plane accident has claimed the lives of at least 68 individuals. In the nation’s deadliest aviation catastrophe in three decades, a small passenger jet carrying 72 people crashed into a ravine while landing at a recently opened airstrip in the resort town of Pokhara on Sunday.

On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of rescuers and onlookers gathered near a narrow gap to watch as crews searched the debris at the brink of the cliff and in the ravine below.

The rescue efforts were impeded, according to local resident Bishnu Tiwari, who hurried to the accident site to help search for remains, by dense smoke and a blazing fire that consumed the aircraft.

We were unable to approach the wreckage because the flames were so intense. The flames and smoke prevented us from assisting the man I overheard pleading for help, Tiwari added.

What caused the accident was not immediately apparent.

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