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>Flight crashed while attempting to land at Pokhara International Airport, Nepal.
>Video from east of the airport shows the left wing dipping rapidly before the plane plummets nose first behind a building and into the nearby Seti Gandaki River.
>72 on board (4 crew), 68 confirmed dead, very likely to be no survivors.
>Second video from a Facebook Live stream shows an Indian passenger smiling as the plane approaches the airport, before the video blurs as the plane tilts and crashes. The camera survived the impact and continued to stream a fiery inferno for half a minute.
>Pilot had 35 years of experience.
>Co-pilot had 1 year of experience and was literally seconds away from gaining her professional pilot's license (oof). Tragically, she lost her husband, also a co-pilot, in a 2006 Yeti Airlines crash
>According to ATC, the flight was cleared for a landing on runway 30, but the pilots requested a landing on runway 12. It appears the flight crashed while executing the runway 12 approach.
>Video from east of the airport shows the left wing dipping rapidly before the plane plummets nose first behind a building and into the nearby Seti Gandaki River.
>72 on board (4 crew), 68 confirmed dead, very likely to be no survivors.
>Second video from a Facebook Live stream shows an Indian passenger smiling as the plane approaches the airport, before the video blurs as the plane tilts and crashes. The camera survived the impact and continued to stream a fiery inferno for half a minute.
>Pilot had 35 years of experience.
>Co-pilot had 1 year of experience and was literally seconds away from gaining her professional pilot's license (oof). Tragically, she lost her husband, also a co-pilot, in a 2006 Yeti Airlines crash
>According to ATC, the flight was cleared for a landing on runway 30, but the pilots requested a landing on runway 12. It appears the flight crashed while executing the runway 12 approach.
