Gut-wrenching footage taken moments after an aircraft crashed in Nepal Sunday morning showed the plane engulfed in flames as black smoke billowed above the wreckage.
At least 68 of the 72 passengers aboard the plane were killed in the crash.Rescue teams work at the crash site.Bijaya Neupane/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockPrime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said the plane was flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara in central Nepal when it crashed. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident.
Dahal, who rushed to the airport after the crash, has set up a panel to investigate the horrific accident’s cause. “The incident was tragic. The full force of the Nepali army, police has been deployed for rescue,” he said.Hundreds of rescue workers gathered to recover bodies from the plane.Weather can change suddenly in Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest, which can make air travel difficult.
Sunday’s crash is Nepal’s deadliest since 1992, when all 167 passengers aboard a Pakistan International Airlines flight were killed when the plane crashed into a hill. There have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946, according to the Flight Safety Foundation’s Aviation Safety database.
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