The aviation authority said the aircraft last made contact with the airport from near Seti Gorge at 10:50 a.m. before crashing. It's the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades.
Tek Bahadur K. C., a senior administrative officer in the Kaski district, said he expected rescue workers to find more bodies at the bottom of the gorge.
"The incident was tragic. The full force of the Nepali army, police has been deployed for rescue," he said. In Taiwan, two earlier accidents involving ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircraft happened just months apart. ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday's crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet. According to plane tracking data from flightradar24.com, the aircraft was 15 years old and"equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data." It was previously flown by India's Kingfisher Airlines and Thailand's Nok Air before Yeti took it over in 2019, according to records on Airfleets.net.
Nepal, home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes. According to the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety database, there have been 42 fatal plane crashes in Nepal since 1946.
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