Nepal plane crash: While the Saurya Airlines aircraft was taking off from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, it crashed and caught fire, killing at least eighteen people.
The aircraft of Saurya Airlines crashes in Kathmandu: On social media on Wednesday, a stunning video clip showing the precise moment the Saurya Airlines plane crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu appeared. The video shows the 19-person aircraft carrying Saurya Airlines catching fire not long after it went off the ground.
The validity of the video could not be independently confirmed by HT.
The Saurya Airlines aircraft crashed and caught fire when it was taking off from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, killing at least eighteen people.
According to officials, the airplane was transporting 17 technicians and two crew members to Pokhara city so they could fix another aircraft.
The spokesperson for Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Tej Bahadur Poudyal, stated that “only the captain was rescued alive and is receiving treatment at a hospital.”
Images on television showed firefighters attempting to put out the fire and billowing clouds of black smoke into the sky. Additionally, footage showed the aircraft hovering just over the runway before tilting and crashing.
Additional images displayed rescue personnel searching through the burnt remnants of the aircraft, scattered across verdant fields.
The television broadcasted locals watching as bodies were stretchered to ambulances.
Authorities identified the aircraft as a Bombardier, and the media said it was operated by the regional Saurya Airlines. The officials also stated that the airport had been temporarily closed.
According to Flight Radar 24, Saurya uses two Bombardier CRJ-200 regional planes, both roughly twenty years old, for domestic flights in Nepal.
Since 2000, aircraft or helicopter crashes in Nepal have claimed the lives of about 350 people, earning the Himalayan nation criticism for its dismal record on aviation safety.
The worst occurrence happened in 1992 when an Airbus operated by Pakistan International Airlines struck a hillside as it approached Kathmandu, killing 167 passengers.
Most recently, a Yeti Airlines catastrophe in January 2023 claimed the lives of at least 72 people. It was later determined that the pilots’ error in turning off the power was the cause of the tragedy.
