Local authorities in Nepal, South Asian country between India and China, have confirmed 68 of the 72 people onboard Yeti Airlines’ Flight 691 dead after its ATR aircraft crashed on Sunday.
The plane crashed on the banks of the Seti Gandaki river as it approached Pokhara International Airport where it should have landed.
The aeroplane had been travelling from Kathmandu, the capital city, to the city of Pokhara in central Nepal.
Airport officials say that the plane carried 15 foreign nationals, including one Australian, one French, one Argentinian, one person from Ireland, four Russians, five Indians and two South Koreans.
TRAGIC CO-PILOT STORY
After the plane crash, more information about the passengers continued to unravel. It has been one tragic story after another.
According to multiple sources, Anju, the co-pilot on the fateful flight had studied to become a pilot to fulfill the dreams of her husband who was once a pilot.
One of the reports claimed that the co-pilot’s husband died in a plane tragedy with Yeti Airlines about 15 years ago.
Flight 691 was meant to be her final assignment as a co-pilot, after which she would have been awarded her certificate. Unfortunately, she was in this plane crash.
A former classmate has since come on Twitter to identify with her.
LIVESTREAMED CRASH
A rather horrific than tragic story is that of one of the passengers who was livestreaming on Facebook moments before the plane crashed.
The video captured the terrain outside and below the plane from a higher altitude. An angle from the passenger and other passengers’ perspective was filmed as the plane descended slowly, then rapidly.
The video was still on for a few more seconds as the cabin burst into flames and people screamed.
The content of the video footage is very disturbing and commentators have spoken against sharing the video.
TWO DOCTORS AND THEIR CHILD
All lives are of equal value and none is to be compared to the other on a scale of worth. However, the death of a child hurts more.
Syed Faizan Ahmad, an Indian surgeon, announced the death of Drs Sushil, Sona Diwakar, and their infant son.
Both parents were with their baby on Yeti Airlines’ ill-fated Flight 691.
Passenger details provided by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal shows that there were at least six infants and children on Flight 691.
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“The aircraft crashed into a gorge so it is difficult to bring the bodies. Search and rescue is ongoing. No survivors have been found yet,” Krishna Prasad Bhandari, an army spokesperson, said.
The army said that it had recovered over 30 bodies before it halted on Sunday evening.
This crash is Nepal’s worst aviation disaster since 1992, when 167 people died in a Pakistan International Airlines flight to Kathmandu crashed.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) said that it was “saddened by the tragic loss of life”.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Prime Minister of Nepal, called an emergency meeting after the crash and the government has formed a five-member commission of inquiry to investigate the cause of the crash.
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