The aircraft that crashed had diverted from an area of Russia that Moscow recently defended against Ukrainian drone attacks. 29 survivors receive hospital treatment.
Rescue services said the plane hit the ground and slid at least 100 metres before crashing into the building. No suggestions of explosion preceded the crash.
The plane was carrying two crew members and 17 technicians to Pokhara city for maintenance checks, Kathmandu Airport Security Chief Arjun Chand Thakuri said.
Chandrika Sharma was on board Flight MH370, which disappeared on 8 March 2014. Her husband has been chronicling his hope, heartbreak, and hunger for answers ever since.
Aircraft, which was carrying 14 crew members apart from pilot, swerved off runway shortly after landing. Injured rushed to Lengpui hospital, four in serious condition.
The siblings, who belong to an indigenous community, were rescued near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed.
Roma Gupta, 63, died on the spot while daughter Reeva, 33, and the 23-year-old flight instructor, were pulled out of the smouldering plane by a civilian.
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Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
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It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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