The last moments of airplane with 72 people on board that crashed last Sunday in Nepalleaving no survivors, were broadcast live by one of its passengers, a young Indian who was traveling with three friends for religious reasons and who decided to fly at the last minute.
In a video broadcast on his Facebook page and that has gone viral on social networks days after the accident, Sonu Jaiswal smiles at the camera, looking at the rooftops of the Nepalese city of Pokhara from the plane window and, Moments later, the screen is covered in flames and smoke. amid a deafening noise.
Jaiswal, as his neighbor and friend Ajit Jaiswal told the Times of India newspaper on Tuesday, left for Nepal last Thursday together with three friends to fulfill a religious vow: he had promised to visit the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, after his eight-month-old son spent almost a month in intensive care.
“For months, Sonu had planned the trip. He was a very religious person,” Jaiswal said, also noting that the four friends had initially planned to travel to the city of Pokhara by car, and decided at the last moment to go by car. airplane.
As relatives and neighbors try to process the tragedy, Zafar Abbas, another mutual friend of the four, reminded the Times of India of his plans to throw a surprise birthday party for one of the deceased, Abhishek Kushwaha.
“On Monday we planned to throw a surprise party for Abhishek, since he was going to turn 26, although we never imagined that he would not return from Nepal“Abbas lamented.
Body rescues continue
Nepalese rescue teams continued this Tuesday to search for the bodies of the last passengers missing in the plane crash, the most serious in the area in recent years.
So far, rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 69 people who were traveling on the plane at the time of the accident, which occurred when it was trying to land at the international airport of Pokhara from Kathmandu.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of NepalAmong the travelers were 53 Nepalis, five Indian citizens, four Russians, one Irishman, one Australian, one Argentine, two Koreans, and one Frenchman. (With information from EFE)