Passenger plane crashes in Nepal

08/10/2008| IslamWeb

At least 17 people have been killed in a plane crash in Nepal.

Most of the passengers on the Yeti Airlines aircraft were foreigners flying from the capital, Kathmandu, to Lukla in eastern Nepal on Wednesday.

Suraj Kunwar, a journalist at the scene, told AFP that the aircraft had crashlanded and had burst into flames.

An airport official said: "A Yeti Airlines plane has crashed at Lukla airport while it was landing.

"Twelve Germans and two Swiss people were on the passenger manifest and we are trying to confirm this as the passengers may have changed."

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