Pokhara

A dramatic video shot on a smartphone from the ground shows the last moments before the plane crashed in a gorge about a mile from the newly opened Pokhara International Airport.

Anup Joshi, a spokesman for Pokhara Airport, said that the plane crashed as it was coming in for a landing.

I had to rent cars to take tourists to Pokhara, Ghandruk or Nagarkot, so I decided to buy my own car.

In 2014, a Nepal Airlines plane flying from Pokhara to Jumla crashed, killing all 18 on board.

KATHMANDU – At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A regional passenger plane with 72 people on board crashed into a gorge while landing at a newly opened airport in the resort town of Pokhara in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 32, an official said.

Last Sunday, a Yeti Airlines flight crashed near Pokhara, Nepal’s second-most-populous city, killing all 72 people on board.

Nepal’s worst air crash in 30 years killed 71 people in January, when a plane went down near the tourist city of Pokhara.

Nira, who had moved to Kathmandu, had been on the flight on her way to perform at a music festival in Pokhara.

Rescuers inspect the wreckage at the site of a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan.

Rescuers work at the site of a plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal January 15, 2023, in this screen grab taken from a handout video.

The aircraft was making a 27-minute flight from Nepal's capital Kathmandu to the resort town of Pokhara.

The airport in Pokhara, a popular tourist destination as the gateway to the Annapurna mountain range, sits at an elevation of some 820 meters (2,700 feet).

The plane caught fire while it was about to land at newly-built Pokhara airport.

The plane had been travelling from Kathmandu to Pokhara International Airport, which began operations only two weeks ago.

There are two large spaces in the centre of Pokhara’s urbanism that need to be kept open and un-encroached.

The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, was flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, located 200 kilometres west.

The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, was flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, located 200 kilometres west.

The Yeti Airlines flight had plummeted into a steep gorge, smashed into pieces, and burst into flames as it approached the central city of Pokhara.

Tragic video emerges of plane crash in Nepal's Pokhara, filmed by Ghazipur passenger on Facebook Live pic.