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Kathmandu: Search and rescue operations have resumed in Nepal’s Pokhara. The rescue team resumed work on Monday morning to find the four missing people on board the plane that crashed on Sunday. Earlier the rescue operation was stopped on Sunday night. There were 72 people including four crew members in the crashed ATR-72 aircraft, out of which 68 people have been confirmed dead. This is the deadliest plane crash in the Himalayan nation in more than 30 years.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft of ‘Yeti Airlines’ took off from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu at 10.33 am. While landing at Pokhara airport, the plane crashed on the banks of river Seti between the old airport and the new airport. Five Indians died in this accident. All of them were residents of Uttar Pradesh.
#UPDATE Nepal aircraft crash | The search and rescue operations resume in Pokhara, a day after a Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed here and claimed 68 lives so far, as per the latest toll. pic.twitter.com/q9azE2Yv3t
— ANI (@ANI) January 16, 2023
The pilot of the aircraft, Captain Kamal KC, made the first contact with the Pokhara control tower from a distance of about 110 km. The bodies have been sent to Gandaki Hospital for postmortem, an official of Kaski’s district administration office said.
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Government spokesperson and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Poudel said on Sunday that the government has constituted a five-member inquiry committee to investigate the accident. An inquiry committee headed by former aviation secretary Nagendra Ghimire has been asked to probe the accident and submit its report within 45 days. So far 68 deaths have been confirmed.
