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 A Nepali passenger plane with 72 people onboard crashed in Nepal's Pokhara on Sunday. Sixty-eight bodies have been recovered from the site of the accident. 

The Yeti Airlines plane was carrying 68 passengers, including five Indians, and four crew members. It crashed during landing at the Pokhara airport.

This is the second major aviation disaster in Nepal within a year's time. On May 30, 2022, a Tara Air passenger plane crashed in the Mustang region of Nepal, killing all 22 persons onboard. 

The Yeti Airlines aircraft fell into a river gorge in Pokhara during the landing. The tough terrain at the site of crash made rescue work difficult. 

Here we tell you everything we know so far about the Pokhara plane crash and also list the major air accidents in recent past. 

What we know of Pokhara air crash

Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport at Pokhara minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).

Though 68 bodies have so far been recovered, the identification has not yet taken place. 

Of the 68 passengers onboard, 15 were foreign nationals, including five Indians. The other foreign nationals were four Russians, two Koreans, an Australian, a French, an Argentine and an Israeli. The Indians onboard have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, 25, Bishal Sharma, 22, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, 27, Sonu Jaiswal, 35, and Sanjaya Jaiswal, according to a Yeti Airlines official.

Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 claimed that the Yeti Airlines aircraft was 15 years old and equipped with an 'old transponder with unreliable data'.

There was no adverse weather in Pokhara at the time of accident. Videos of the plane's final moments on social media show a sunny and clear sky.

Yeti Airlines Spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula said the plane's engine was in a good condition.

He said, "The weather in Pokhara was absolutely fine and the engine of the aircraft was also in good condition. We don't know what has happened to the airplane."

The latest in the long line of air accidents

The Pokhara plane crash is the long line of aviation disasters in recent past. 

Here are some of the air accidents in recent years:

May 30, 2022: A Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in the Mustang region of Nepal, killing all 22 people on board.

March 21, 2022: A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crashed in the mountains of Guangxi near Guangzhou, China, leading to daeths of all 133 people on board.

January 9, 2021: A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashed into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board, including seven children and three babies, were killed.

August 7, 2020:  An aircraft of Air India crashed at the Kozhikode (Calicut) International airport in Kerala. The plane coming from Dubai had overshot the runway at Kozhikode airport and later broke into pieces. There were 186 people onboard the ill-fated aircraft. A total of 21 people, including pilot and co-pilot, were killed in the mishap.     

May 22, 2020: An Airbus A320, belonging to Pakistan International Airlines, carrying 97 passengers and eight members of crew crashed in Pakistan's Karachi. It is considered to be one of the most catastrophic aviation disasters in the country's aviation history.

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