This is so sad…
A plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including two U.S. citizens, officials said.
The turboprop plane belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 13 foreign tourists, three Nepalese passengers and three crew members when it crashed in Bisankunarayan village, just a few miles south of the capital, Katmandu.
Rewant Kuwar, an official at Katmandu’s international airport rescue office, said that 18 bodies were pulled out of the plane’s wreckage, and that another victim died later after being rushed to a hospital.
Tourism Secretary Ganeshraj Joshi said that among the foreigners who died in the crash, two were U.S. citizens, 10 were Indian nationals and the other was Japanese.
Andy Lane, a U.S. State Department press officer, told NBC News that it was aware of the incident and was working with Nepal’s government to get more information.
He said the State Department could not confirm the reports that two Americans were on board and died in the crash.
An eyewitness, Haribol Poudel, told Avenues Television that the plane had hit the roof of a house in the village and disintegrated into several pieces. No casualties were reported on the ground.
Poudel said it was foggy, and that visibility was very low in the mountainous area.
Our thoughts are with the victims’ families.
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