The Himalayan country has some of the world’s trickiest runways to land on.
KATHMANDU – A passenger plane crashed on take-off in Kathmandu on July 24, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage, but all 18 others aboard killed, the police in the Nepali capital told AFP.
“The pilot has been rescued and is being treated,” he said. “Eighteen bodies have been recovered, including one foreigner. We are in the process of taking them for post-mortem.”A press release from the airport said the aircraft “veered off to the right and crashed on the east side of the runway” shortly after take-off.Mr Ram Kumar K.C., who runs a tyre store near the accident site, told AFP that the plane caught fire after hitting the ground.
Images of the aftermath shared by Nepal’s military show the plane’s fuselage split apart and burnt to a husk.
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