Nepal Plane Crash 2023

A tourist town in Nepal witnessed a deadly plane crash, when an aircraft on a 27-minute flight, while trying to land at a recently inaugurated airport, crashed into a gorge on Sunday. The accident resulted in the death of at least 68 out of the 72 passengers on board. Some reports suggest that cries for help were heard from the burning wreckage, making it the most fatal air crash in Nepal in the past 30 years.

As the night fell, many spectators gathered around the site of the accident, near the Pokhara airport, as rescue teams searched through the debris on the cliff's edge and in the valley below. The search for the remaining 4 missing passengers was halted for the night and set to continue the following day.

Rescue teams work to retrieve bodies at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. Bijay Neupane/Handout via REUTERS

Bishnu Tiwari, a local resident who quickly went to the accident site near the Seti River to assi...

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