Bangladesh Passenger Plane Crash Lands at Kathmandu Airport
Passenger Plane Crashes at Kathmandu Airport; Casualties Unknown
(Bloomberg) -- A plane carrying scores of passengers crashed near Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal, a spokesman for the operator of the aircraft said, without elaborating. At least 38 people were killed, the Associated Press reported.
The aircraft belonging to Bangladesh’s US-Bangla Airlines careened off the runway while landing and crashed near the airport on Monday, Prem Nath Thakur, a spokesman for Kathmandu’s airport said. Rescue operations were underway, with about 20 injured passengers evacuated to nearby hospitals, he said.
Kamrul Islam, the spokesman for the carrier, told AP the plane was carrying 67 passengers to the Nepalese capital. The twin-propeller Bombardier Dash 8, flying from Bangladesh, had four crew members on board.
The crash comes less than a month after a twin-engine turboprop ATR-72 plane flown by Iran’s Aseman Airlines went down on Feb. 18 in Iran, killing all 59 passengers and six crew members.
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