CDMX, Mexico.- A Yeti Airlines plane crashed this Sunday with 72 people on board in the city of Pokhara, in Nepal. The airplane It fell in an area between the old airport and Pokhara International Airport, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula.
The flight left from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, to the tourist city of Pokhara. The videos that have been recovered from the accident show how the plane first crashed and then caught fire.
Although until now there is no official count of the victims since not all the bodies have been recovered; It is expected that there are no survivors due to the magnitude of the incident.
There were 68 passengers and four crew members on the aircraft. Rescuers work to remove the bodies.
As for the passengers, 53 of them are Nepalese, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, one Irish, one Argentine, one Australian and one French, reported the BBC.
Khum Bahadur Chhetri, a local resident, said he watched the aircraft approach from his home. “I saw that the plane was shaking, moving left and right, and suddenly its cabin sank and it fell into the gorge,” he posted. France24.
This is the deadliest accident in the country since 1992, when 167 people died when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 crashed near Kathmandu.
The French agency points out that Nepal’s air sector transports people to areas that are difficult to access and has some of the most remote and complicated runways in the world, flanked by snow-capped peaks that are very difficult to approach.
“However, safety regulations are scarce and aircraft maintenance is inadequate. Also, in places where the weather changes rapidly, the country does not have the necessary infrastructure to make accurate weather forecasts.”
The ATR 72, co-produced by France and Italy, is a twin-turboprop aircraft used on regional routes and short-haul routes. The FlightRadar24 portal indicates that the plane was 15 years old.
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