Yeti Airlines aircraft carrying 72 people, including one Irish, crashed in western Pokhara
The craft made contact with the airport from Seti Gorge at 10.50am local time, the aviation authority said in a statement. “Then it crashed.”The flight was en route to Pokhara from capital Kathmandu and crashed “10 to 20 seconds before landing, he said, adding there was no distress call from the cockpit before the disaster, he said.“Half of the plane is on the hillside,” said Arun Tamu, a local resident, who told Reuters he reached the site minutes after the plane went down.
The plane was 15 years old, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24. The ATR72 is a widely used twin engine turboprop plane manufactured by a joint venture of Airbus and Italy’s Leonardo. Yeti Airlines has a fleet of six ATR72-500 planes, according to its website.
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