Crashed after 20 minutes
The reports coming in suggest that the flight crashed just 20 minutes after takeoff from the airport. Video clips before the accident are also coming on Twitter. This footage is only a few seconds before the crash. It can be clearly seen in a video how the plane loses balance in the air before crashing. It then crashes with a loud noise. It is believed that the pilot might have lost his balance before the crash. As soon as it crashed, this plane turned into a fireball.
emergency meeting is going on
Local official Gurudatta Dhakal has told the news agency AFP that after the crash, a lot of effort had to be made to extinguish the fire of the plane. According to Reuters, 15 foreign nationals have also been killed in the accident, out of which five are Indians. The plane had left for Pokhara from the capital Kathmandu.
The plane had taken off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. The place where it crashed is a forest and the Seti Gandaki river flows close to it. This river passes through the old and international airport of Pokhara. After the accident, an emergency meeting is going on from the side of the government, in which Prime Minister Pushpa Dahal Prachanda is also present.