Park Dae-seong, a minister and spokesperson of the Won Buddhist order, confirmed on Monday the deaths of Arun Paudel and his daughter, Prasiddi.Īrun Paudel, 47, had worked as a police officer in Nepal before being introduced into the religion by his brother. “He was a hardworking person, and now there’s no one left in his family to earn,” Bikash said. More than 24 hours after the crash, his body lay in the same hospital where his niece was born. Sanjay Jaiswal, who worked as a marketing agent for a private pharmaceutical company in Kathmandu, was flying to Pokhara for the birth. “I’m so sad, I can’t believe it still,” she said in tears.īikash Jaiswal said he could only identify his wife's brother only by the ring he wore, and that he had yet to tell his wife, who just gave birth to their daughter. Hundreds of people have gathered outside the Pokhara Academy of Health and Science, Western Hospital, where the bodies are being kept.īimala Bhenderi said was planning to meet her friend, Tribhuban Paudel, on Tuesday when she heard that his flight had crashed. The pilot, who works for a private Indian airline and insisted on anonymity due to company policy, called the ATR 72-500 an “unforgiving aircraft” if the pilot isn’t highly skilled and familiar with the region’s terrain and wind speeds. A pilot who routinely flies an ATR 72-500 plane from India to Nepal said the region’s topography, with its mountain peaks and narrow valleys, raises the risk of accidents and sometimes requires pilots to fly by sight rather than relying on instruments. Nepal is home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest. Pemba Sherpa, spokesperson for Yeti Airlines, confirmed that both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders were found. Jagannath Niraula, a spokesman for the authority, said the flight recorders will be handed over to investigators. The foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France. It was carrying 68 passengers, including 15 foreign nationals, as well as four crew members, Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was completing the 27-minute flight from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, 200 kilometers (125 miles) west. “Seeing that scene, I was scared,” he added.Īmit Singh, an experienced pilot and founder of India’s Safety Matters Foundation, said Bohora's video appears to show a stall, a situation in which a plane loses lift, especially likely at low airspeeds. “I thought that today everything will be finished here after it crashes, I will also be dead.”Īfter it crashed, red flames erupted and the ground shook violently, Bohora said. "I saw that, and I was shocked," said Diwas Bohora. A witness who recorded footage of the plane’s descent said it looked like a normal landing until the plane suddenly veered to the left. ![]() Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said the aircraft last made contact with the airport, which began operations only two weeks ago, from near Seti Gorge. The video, by Sonu Jaiswal and verified by The Associated Press, then shows a violent jolt and a series of jerky images accompanied by yelling before flames fill the screen. In footage taken by a passenger out of a window as the plane came in for a landing, buildings, roads and greenery are visible below. It's still not clear what caused the crash, which took place less than a minute's flight from the airport on a mild day with little wind. Later, some did receive the bodies of relatives. ![]() On Monday evening, relatives and friends were still gathered outside a local hospital, some shouting at officials to speed up the post mortems so they could hold funerals for their loved ones. Many of the passengers on Sunday's flight were returning home to Pokhara, though the city is also popular with tourists since it's the gateway to the Annapurna Circuit hiking trail. Rescuers combed through the debris, scattered down a 300-meter-deep (984-foot-deep) gorge, for them. ![]() At least 69 of the 72 people aboard were killed, and officials believe the three missing are also dead.
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