A passenger plane crashed on takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday, with the pilot rescued from the flaming wreckage but all 18 others aboard killed, police in the Nepali capital told AFP
A plane crashed during takeoff in Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Wednesday morning with 19 people aboard, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported citing an airport official
Anju Khatiwada, the co-pilot aboard the fateful Yeti Airlines -- ATR-72 -- which crashed in Nepal's Pokhara with 72 people, was seconds away from achieving her goal of becoming a captain.
Kalpana Sunar had come to Pokhara from Dulegaunda in Tanahun to celebrate Maghe Sankranti three days ago. She was washing clothes in the front yard of her house when she saw an aeroplane falling from the sky and coming in her direction.
Nepal suffered its worst air crash in three decades today when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara killing 68 people.
No Bangladeshi passengers were onboard the plane of Yeti Airlines that crashed in Pokhara in Nepal with 72 people. .Bikram Gautam, head of Pokhara Regional International Airport, confirmed it to The Daly Star this afternoon.
Here's a quick round-up of all the major stories today.
At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country's Civil Aviation Authority said, in the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.
The bodies of all 22 people, including 19 passengers and three crew members, who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside in Nepal two days ago have been recovered, an official said on Tuesday.
Nepal authorities on Monday recovered or located the bodies of all but one of 22 people who were on board a plane that crashed into a Himalayan mountainside on Sunday, officials said, and the government has formed a panel to investigate the incident.
The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in March, killing 51 people, appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure and was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to Kathmandu.
The committee probing the US-Bangla plane crash found that there were communication inconsistencies between the pilot and the Air
A parliamentary body yesterday asked the chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh to enquire whether its inspectors
Families of the victims of US-Bangla plane crash are each entitled to get up to Tk 1.6 crore in compensation from the airlines and its insurers under international aviation laws.
US-Bangla plane crash survivor Kabir Hossain would be taken to Singapore for treatment.
The bodies of the three remaining Bangladeshi victims of the US-Bangla aircraft crash arrived in the capital yesterday.
Moments before impact, the pilot of the US-Bangla flight BS211 yanked the Bombardier Dash-8 to miss the Air Traffic Control tower