a plane of the Nepalese airline Yeti Airline with more than 70 people on board suffered an accident this Sunday when he was covering a domestic route that left from kathmanduwithout yet knowing details about the situation of the passengers.
Yeti Airlines plane crashed in Pokhara districtsome 200 kilometers west of the Nepalese capital when it was trying to land, the company’s spokesman, Sudarshan Bartaula, confirmed to EFE.
The aircraft, an ATR-72, had 68 passengers and four crew members on board. “Details on casualties are yet to come,” the spokesman added.
Videos posted on social media, attributed to today’s accident, show plumes of smoke coming out of the area where the accident took place. Pokhara airport serves as a connection for travelers heading to the town of Jomsom, located in heart of the Himalayas, a popular destination among foreign tourists who visit the Annapurna peak (8,091 meters) or the Mustang region, as well as among Hindu pilgrims.
Nepal, with frequent plane crashes, has been the subject of repeated international sanctions for the lack of controls. The European Union has banned access to its territory for Nepali airlines since 2013.
The most serious plane crash in recent years in Nepal occurred in March 2018, when a plane of the Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla from Dhaka crashed during landing maneuver at Kathmandu International Airport with 67 passengers and four crew members on board, leaving fifty deaths.
Source: Lasexta
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