At least 50 dead after plane crashes at Kathmandu Airport
| Updated: Mar 12, 2018, 01:36 PM IST
At least 50 people are dead and 23 injured after a plane crashed Monday afternoon at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, reports said
Passenger plane crashes in Nepal
At least 50 people are dead and 23 injured after a plane crashed Monday afternoon at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, reports said.
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10 people still unaccounted for
The police official added that 10 people passengers were still unaccounted for
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The plane crashed with a total of 71 people on board
There were a total of 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines plane.
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Smoke rising from the airport
Images posted on social media showed smoke rising from the airport.
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Plane en route from Dhaka
The plane (call sign S2-AGU) had been flying in from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Plane 'became unstable' while descending and finally crashed
Reuters reported a Kathmandu Airport official as saying the passenger plane 'became unstable' while descending and crashed
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Plane caught fire after it careened off the runway while landing
While other reports quoted TIA spokesperson Prem Nath Thakur as saying the plane caught fire after it careened off the runway while landing and crashed into a football ground near the airport