KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A aircraft crashed Wednesday simply after starting up from Nepal’s capital, killing 18 folks and injuring a pilot who was once the lone survivor.Police reliable Basanta Rajauri mentioned government have pulled out all 18 our bodies. The pilot has accidents to his eyes however his existence isn’t in any risk, mentioned a health care provider at Kathmandu Clinical School Medical institution, the place the pilot is being handled. The physician spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of she was once now not approved to talk to media.A press observation issued by way of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal mentioned the Saurya Airways home aircraft, which was once scheduled to go to the hotel the town of Pokhara, took off at 11:11 a.m. native time from Kathmandu airport and became proper however crashed moments later within the jap phase of the airport. It’s monsoon rain season in Kathmandu however was once now not raining on the time of the crash. Visibility was once low around the capital, on the other hand.
The Kathmandu airport, the principle airport serving Nepal, is positioned within a valley surrounded by way of mountains on maximum facets. It is regarded as a difficult airport for pilots and larger planes have to come back thru a gap at the mountain to land. It’s proper subsequent to the town, and is surrounded by way of homes and neighborhoods. The our bodies were taken to the T.U. Educating Medical institution in Kathmandu for post-mortem. The airline manifest confirmed there have been two pilots and 17 passengers on board. The staff and 16 passengers have been Nepali nationals and one passenger was once known as a Yemeni nationwide.
Tribhuvan Global Airport, the principle airport in Nepal for global and home flights, has been closed as emergency staff and investigators started their paintings.Saurya Airways operates the Bombardier CRJ 200 on home routes.In 2019, a Bangladeshi airliner crashed at Tribhuvan airport, killing 51 folks whilst 20 on board survived. An investigation showed the aircraft was once misaligned with the runway and its pilot was once disoriented and attempted to land in “sheer desperation” when the aircraft crashed. In 2015, a Turkish Airways jet touchdown in dense fog skidded off a slippery runway on the airport. The aircraft was once sporting 238 folks however there have been no severe accidents.
