A plane crash was reported this morning. Around 20 people were reported dead in the crash.
The bodies of 18 out of the 19 people on board a Kathmandu flight were recovered after the plane crashed at a Nepal airport on Wednesday,local media said.
The passengers, comprising crew and technical staff, were on board the Pokhara-bound Saurya Airlines plane when it caught on fire around 11 am, the Nepal military said. The pilot of the aircraft has been taken to a hospital, a security official deployed at the airport told.
CRJ200 plane, which can seat 50 passengers, did not gain any altitude on takeoff, slipped off the runway and fell down an embankment and caught fire. Videos from the spot show a large fire with plumes of smoke rising near the Tribhuvan International Airport.
