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Nepal Plane Crash News: A plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport. The accident resulted in multiple fatalities, with only the pilot surviving the crash. The pilot is currently receiving medical treatment, according to police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki, as reported by news agency AFP.

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remarkably some media suggest that the pilot did that sharp turn to avoid populated area's

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Apparently all employees onboard... pilot transported to hospital alive.

Plane crash at Nepal's Kathmandu airport kills 18

KATHMANDU, (July 24, 2024) — Eighteen people were killed when a small passenger plane belonging to Nepal's Saurya Airlines crashed and caught fire while taking off from the capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, officials said.

The plane, carrying two crew members and 17 technicians, was going for regular maintenance to Nepal's new Pokhara airport, which opened in January last year and is equipped with aircraft maintenance hangars, they said.

"Shortly after takeoff ... the aircraft veered off to the right and crashed on the east side of the runway," the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a statement.

The crash once again focused attention on the poor air safety record of the impoverished, landlocked Himalayan nation that is wedged between India and China and is heavily dependent upon air connectivity due to its limited road network.

Nearly 350 people have died in plane or helicopter crashes in the country since 2000.

Nepal's prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, visited the crash site and asked people to "be patient" in a social media post, without elaborating. An emergency cabinet meeting was called to form a panel to probe the crash, a government spokesman said.

Eighteen of those on board the crashed 50-seater CRJ-200 aircraft, with the registration 9N-AME, were Nepali citizens while one engineer was from Yemen, Saurya said.

"Only the captain was rescued alive and is receiving treatment at a hospital," said Tej Bahadur Poudyal, the spokesman for Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.

Television visuals showed fire fighters trying to put out the blaze and thick black smoke rising into the sky. Images also showed the plane flying a little above the runway and then tilting to its right before it crashed.

Other visuals showed rescue workers examining the charred remains of the plane, strewn in lush green fields, and bodies being carried to ambulances on stretchers as residents looked on.

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[houseoftechno]

That broken English news announcer sounded just like a Capital One customer support rep.

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Originally Posted by houseoftechno ↗

That broken English news announcer sounded just like a Capital One customer support rep.

that's her other job

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Lucky pilot.

The pilot who survived a deadly plane crash in Nepal was saved after his cockpit split from the plane on impact with a freight container, seconds before the rest of the aircraft crashed in flames.

Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, the sole survivor of the disaster is talking and able to tell family members he was “all good”.

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[William May]

Originally Posted by houseoftechno ↗

That broken English news announcer sounded just like a Capital One customer support rep.

Actually, she was seated in row 12, seat A, with her feet up, talking on the phone.

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Originally Posted by b0g ↗

remarkably some media suggest that the pilot did that sharp turn to avoid populated area's

Didn't look like a turn to me. Looks like the right wing stalled.