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KATHMANDU: At least 40 people were killed and 23 injured when a Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near Kathmandu airport on Monday, in the worst aviation disaster to hit Nepal in years.
Officials said there were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines plane from Dhaka when it crashed into a football field near the airport.
Rescuers had to cut apart the mangled and burned wreckage of the aircraft to pull people out.
“Thirty-one people died at the spot and nine died at two hospitals in Kathmandu,” police spokesperson Manoj Neupane said, adding another 23 were injured.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but a statement from airport authorities said the plane was “out of control” as it came in to land.
Eye witnesses said the plane crashed as it made a second attempt to land.
Nepal Army spokesperson Gokul Bhandaree said seven of the victims had survived the impact but later died of their injuries.
Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the football pitch where the plane crashed, to the east of the runway at Nepal’s only international airport, in the capital Kathmandu.
Airline spokesperson Kamrul Islam said, 33 of the passengers were Nepali, 32 were Bangladeshi, one was Chinese and one from the Maldives.
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The plane was a Canadian-made Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, Mahbubur Rahman of Bangladesh’s civil aviation ministry said. Other sources said the aircraft was 17 years old.
“There might be technical problems on the aircraft. But it has to be probed before making a final statement,” Rahman said.
Kathmandu briefly closed after the accident, forcing inbound flights to divert, but it has since reopened.
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US-Bangla Airlines is a private carrier that launched in July 2014 with the motto “Fly Fast Fly Safe”, according to its website.
The Dhaka-based airline made its first international flight in May 2016 to Kathmandu, and has since expanded with routes to South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
In 2015 one of its planes overshot the runway on landing at Saidpur in northwest Bangladesh. There were no reports of injuries.
Nepal has suffered a number of air disasters in recent years, dealing a blow to its tourist industry.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1657809/3-bangladeshi-passenger-plane-67-passengers-crashes-nepal/
Officials said there were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines plane from Dhaka when it crashed into a football field near the airport.
Rescuers had to cut apart the mangled and burned wreckage of the aircraft to pull people out.
“Thirty-one people died at the spot and nine died at two hospitals in Kathmandu,” police spokesperson Manoj Neupane said, adding another 23 were injured.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but a statement from airport authorities said the plane was “out of control” as it came in to land.
Eye witnesses said the plane crashed as it made a second attempt to land.
Nepal Army spokesperson Gokul Bhandaree said seven of the victims had survived the impact but later died of their injuries.
Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising from the football pitch where the plane crashed, to the east of the runway at Nepal’s only international airport, in the capital Kathmandu.
Airline spokesperson Kamrul Islam said, 33 of the passengers were Nepali, 32 were Bangladeshi, one was Chinese and one from the Maldives.
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The plane was a Canadian-made Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, Mahbubur Rahman of Bangladesh’s civil aviation ministry said. Other sources said the aircraft was 17 years old.
“There might be technical problems on the aircraft. But it has to be probed before making a final statement,” Rahman said.
Kathmandu briefly closed after the accident, forcing inbound flights to divert, but it has since reopened.
All 66 onboard dead as passenger plane crashes in central Iran
US-Bangla Airlines is a private carrier that launched in July 2014 with the motto “Fly Fast Fly Safe”, according to its website.
The Dhaka-based airline made its first international flight in May 2016 to Kathmandu, and has since expanded with routes to South Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
In 2015 one of its planes overshot the runway on landing at Saidpur in northwest Bangladesh. There were no reports of injuries.
Nepal has suffered a number of air disasters in recent years, dealing a blow to its tourist industry.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1657809/3-bangladeshi-passenger-plane-67-passengers-crashes-nepal/
