Plane Crash in Nepal Kills at Least 68
Summary from the AllSides News Team
At least 68 people died in a plane crash near Pokhara, Nepal Sunday morning. The rescue operation is ongoing.
The Details: Yeti Airlines Flight 691 was amid a 30-minute connecting flight from Kathmandu to Pokhara when it crashed in the nearby Seti River Gorge. Witnesses claim to have seen the plane “trembling” before it crashed. The plane, an ATR 72, is the twelfth of its kind to be involved in a fatal incident. CNN (Left Bias) reports the plane’s last contact was with Pokhara airport around 10:50 AM local time, approximately 18 minutes after its takeoff. 72 passengers were aboard the jet. As of Sunday afternoon Eastern Time, 4 passengers are still reported as missing.
For Context: The crash is the most deadly in Nepal since 1992 when a plane crashed near the nation’s capital of Kathmandu, killing all 167 people aboard. Nepalese airlines have been banned in the European Union since 2013, due to what the 27-nation bloc considers weak safety standards. The EU has cited improvements in Nepalese aviation since, but the ban remains in place.
How The Media Covered It: The accident has been covered widely and similarly across the political spectrum. The story is still developing.
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Nepal Plane Crash: Dozens Dead as Video Appears to Show Tragedy Unfold
At least 68 people have died after a passenger plane crashed in central Nepal as it attempted to land, according to local officials.
A domestic flight departing from the country's capital, Kathmandu, was heading for the airport in the Himalayan resort city of Pokhara, Reuters reported.
The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by domestic carrier Yeti Airlines, had 72 people on board. This included four members of crew and two infants, the news agency quoted airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula as saying...
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Dozens killed in Nepal plane crash after aircraft plummets into river gorge
At least 68 people were killed Sunday when a plane crashed into a river gorge in Pokhara, the country's Civil Aviation Authority announced.
The plane, a Yeti Airlines flight carrying passengers out of the capital of Kathmandu, was carrying 72 passengers in total. Four remained unaccounted for as of Sunday morning.
"Half of the plane is on the hillside," a local resident who saw the site told Reuters. "The other half has fallen into the gorge of the Seti river."
The crash is Nepal's worst aircraft disaster since 1992, when a plane carrying 167...
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Sixty-eight deaths were confirmed and four people were missing after a plane crashed Sunday in a ravine near an airport in Nepal.
Yeti Airlines Flight NYT691 crashed in a ravine near the resort town of Pokhara at about 10:50 a.m. local time, the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority said. Two helicopters and a ground rescue team were searching for the missing, the agency said.
“The incident was tragic," Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said. "The full force of the Nepali army, police has been deployed for rescue."
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