As of April 2020, the total was 33 aviation incidents in which 200 or more people died. The first aircraft accident in which 200 or more people died occurred on March 3, 1974, when 346 died in the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981. The first involving a powered aircraft was the crash of a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, in the United States on September 17, 1908, injuring its co-inventor and pilot, Orville Wright, and killing the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge. The first fatal aviation accident was the crash of a Rozière balloon near Wimereux, France, on June 15, 1785, killing the balloon's inventor, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and the other occupant, Pierre Romain. Ī hull loss occurs if an aircraft is damaged beyond repair, lost, or becomes completely inaccessible. Annex 13 defines an aviation incident as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operation. “We have so far sent 63 bodies to the hospital,” said police officer AK Chhetri on Monday.PenAir Flight 3296 after its landing accident in 2019Īn aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or structural failure, or (c) the aircraft goes missing or becomes completely inaccessible. Soldiers used ropes and stretchers to retrieve bodies from the 300-metre (1,000ft) deep ravine late into the night on Sunday. The fire and thick smoke, as well as the treacherous terrain, made the rescue efforts by police and army officers challenging. It was Nepal’s worst aviation disaster since 1992, when 167 people died onboard a Pakistan International Airlines flight that crashed on approach to Kathmandu. It plunged into a gorge moments before it was due to land at Pokhara’s new international airport. The flight was carrying 57 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one person each from Argentina, Britain, Australia and France. The group of friends from India were among 15 foreign nationals who were onboard the plane. The prime minister of Nepal declared a national day of mourning on Monday. There was no hope for survivors, said the authorities.
On Monday, rescuers continued the search to recover the final four bodies from the wreckage. A big tragedy has fallen over us.”Ī still from a Facebook video posed by a passenger on the crashed Yeti Airlines flight.
“I can’t watch that crash video again, it is very hard and painful. “This all seems like a nightmare, I still cannot believe we have lost all of them,” he added. He described the four friends as like “brothers” and said everyone in the area was “very emotional”. “He told me on that call that after landing in Pokhara, they would visit some temples there and then in the evening take a train back home.” “Sonu was showing us the mountains around on the call and was clearly excited, so were we,” said Koswal. During their trip, he had spoken to them many times over video call, including a couple of hours before the crash. Koswal said he had meant to join his four friends on the trip to Nepal but had to stay home after a the death of a relative. Local police also confirmed their identities. He identified the four men, all from Ghazipur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, as 29-year-old Jaiswal, 28-year-old Anil Rajbhar, 23-year-old Vishal Sharma and Abhishek Singh Kushwaha, 23, who had left for Nepal on 12 January. Vishal Koswal, 21, a close friend of the four men heard in the video, confirmed the authenticity of the video. The harrowing video indicates that the 68 passengers and four staff onboard the Yeti Airlines flight had no idea the plane was in danger before an explosion just as it was landing. The burning debris of the aircraft is momentarily visible on the screen before it goes black. But suddenly, the plane appears to veer off with a loud roar, and the sounds of it crashing to the ground are captured on the phone camera, before the screen is filled with flames. All appears calm in the plane, with no emergency announcements or warnings from the pilot or staff.
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