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Following the tragic plane crash involving a Yeti Airlines plane which crashed near Pokhara in Nepal, and left a balance of 68 people dead, different videos with shocking images of the accident and the work of the rescue forces at the scene went viral on social networks. A live made through Facebook shows in detail how the last seconds were lived inside the ATR 72 flight before the fateful end.
As reported by the local media Hindustan Times, the video was shared on Facebook by one of the five passengers on the India who were on board. Is about Sonu Jaiswal 35 years old. The man decided to take out his cell phone and start a video on the social network for his followers.
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In the images you can see that the crew was calm and everyone remained in their seats. Even Jaiswal He was calm and looked out the window. But after a few seconds screams are heard and the video image is lost. Right away, you can see the fire that consumes the plane.
The tragic accident left a balance of 68 deceased passengers of the 72 who undertook the trip. Among them there were an Argentine identified as Jannet Sandra Palavecino. In addition to the four Indian citizens, four other Russians, two Koreans, an Australian, an Irishman and a Frenchman. The members of the crew they were four. For now, international agencies reported at least 68 muertos.
The five Indians were identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, 25, Bishal Sharma, 22, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, 27, Sonu Jaiswal, 35 and Sanjaya Jaiswal, according to the same outlet.
Through the images captured by the user of Facebook who died in the crash, an account dedicated to aviation tracked the places the plane passed through in the city of Pokhara and determined the flight path.
In this sense, he indicated that the clip captured from the inside shows the plane flying over the Bhadrakali Temple surrounded by a tumultuous grove. Immediately after, you can see the Pokhara football stadium. In addition, in one of the shots, the name of the airline is displayed on the seat.
The flight was about to land at the international airport of that city. It flew over the old airport and on the way, of that few kilometers it was that it crashed.
what happened to the plane
The flight crashed shortly before eleven in the morning (local time). near pokhara, where it was supposed to land, but the causes are still not clear. This city is an important crossing point for pilgrims and mountaineers of other nationalities.
While, there are no victims or injuries among the residents of that town. This was confirmed by the mayor, Dhana Raj Acharya.
The burnt-out fuselage of the plane was found in a deep ravine between the old Pokhara airport, created in 1958, and the new international terminal in this city, inaugurated on January 1. After the accident, rescuers tried to put out the fire among the remains of the aircraft, an ATR 72 powered by two turboprop engines.
The plane I was 15 years old and was “equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data”, according to data from the flight tracking service flightradar24.com. Before moving to the Yeti Airlines fleet in 2019, it had been managed by Kingfisher Airlines of India and Nok Air of Thailand, based on records of Airfleets.net. Airlines around the world used this model for short flights. Introduced in the late 1980s by a French and Italian initiative, it has been involved in several fatal accidents over the years.