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A spokesman for Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash of a passenger plane that went down on approach to the tourist town of Pokhara
Since 2000, more than 300 people have died in airplane or helicopter accidents in Nepal.
POKHARA, Nepal--A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country’s deadliest airplane accident in three decades.
One official says the chances of finding any survivors are "nil." The plane went down in a deep gorge while approaching a new airport in a tourist town. Nepal has a poor air safety record.
The black box of the Yeti Airlines aircraft has been recovered from the accident site on Monday, as a search is on for the four persons still missing