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On the morning of January 15, local time, a passenger plane of Nepal Snowman Airlines flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara suddenly crashed, or carrying 72 people on board, at least 30 victims have been found, no survivors have been confirmed, and the search and rescue is being carried out intensively.
The plane crashed between the old and new airports of Pokhara with 68 passengers and 4 crew on board, for a total of 72 people.
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At the time of the crash, the fuselage was on fire, the crash site was filled with smoke, rescuers had gone to the scene by helicopter, and some personnel participated in fighting the fire.
At least 30 bodies of the victims were found.
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In addition, the source said that there may be a total of 10 foreigners on board, and it is not clear from which countries.
According to the data, Nepal Snowman Airlines was established and operated in 1998, headquartered in Kathmandu, mainly operating Nepal domestic routes, the company and its subsidiary Tara Airlines, currently occupy about half of Nepal's domestic route market.
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The accident model was ATR 72.
It is reported that the ATR-72 aircraft is a modification of the ATR-42 regional passenger aircraft manufactured by ATR, a joint venture aircraft manufacturer between France and Italy.
ATR-72 is a twin-propeller civil aircraft, which is the same structure as the ATR-42, but with a longer fuselage, a passenger capacity of 64~74 people, and a range of more than 1650 kilometers.
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Nepal has had nearly 30 fatal plane crashes over the past 30 years, most recently in May 2022 that killed 22 people on board.