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An aircraft carrying tourists to view Mount Everest has crashed while attempting to land in dense fog in Nepal, police and witnesses say.
A witness said on Sunday that 18 bodies were pulled out of the wreckage of the aircraft, which was carrying 19 people.
The Beechcraft aircraft belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 16 foreign tourists and three crew members.
Police officials near the crash site said rescuers had reached the crash site, but would not comment on causalities.
The Buddha Air plane carrying three Nepali crew, and 10 Indian passengers, one local and five other foreign tourists crashed into a hillside in heavy rain and fog at Godavari, 10km from Kathmandu, Binod Singh, a police spokesman, told the AFP news agency"Eighteen people have died and one has been rescued alive.
The Buddha Air-103 was returning from a mountain flight when it crashed with Kotdada Hill, six nautical miles south of Kathmandu," Bimesh Lal Karna, head of the rescue department at Tribhuwan International Airport, said.
An witness, Haribol Poudel, told the Avenues Television channel that the plane had hit the roof of a house in the village and that 18 bodies were pulled out.
He said a man who appeared to have survived was taken to a hospital.
Poudel said it was foggy, and that visibility was very low in the mountainous area.
Rewant Kuwar, an official at the Katmandu Airport rescue office, said the aircraft had last made contact with the control tower at 7:31am.
The aircraft had taken the tourists to view Mount Everest and other high peaks and was returning to Katmandu.
The "mountain flight" takes tourists over the Everest region, and they can view some of the world's highest peaks from the airplane windows.
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Agni Air: A German-made Dornier 228 similar to the model that crashed on Tuesday in Nepal
Al Jazeera
