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For: The opinion Posted Jan 19, 2023, 0:14 am EST
Two US citizens and two US permanent residents are among those killed in the Nepal plane crash earlier this week, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.
“We are deeply saddened to hear about the tragic Yeti Airlines crash over the weekend, which killed 72 people, including two US citizens and two legal permanent residents… Our thoughts are with the families of those on board,” he said. .
“The United States stands ready to support Nepal in any way we can at this difficult time.Price added.
The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, to Pokhara crashed near Pokhara International Airport on Sunday. All 72 people, including 68 passengers and four crew, died when it crashed into a 300-meter-deep cliff. Three children and three babies were traveling on the flight.
In the initial list of nationalities of those who were on board the flight, no Americans were mentioned. Of the 68 passengers on board the twin-engine plane, 15 were Nepalis, according to a flight manifest shared by the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday. Authorities said the remaining passengers were from India, Russia, South Korea, Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France.
A team of experts arrives in Nepal to investigate the air tragedy
A team of experts arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday to take part in the investigation of Yeti Airlines Flight 691, which crashed last Sunday with 72 passengers on board just before landing without leaving any survivors.
Experts analyze possible causes of the accident
Three days after the tragic moment, a team of 11 investigators is led by Yann Torres of the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for the Safety of Civil Aviation (BEA), a French government agency responsible for investigating plane crashes.
Six other members of the team are part of the Franco-Italian company ATR, manufacturer of the crashed plane, and an expert from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
According to the assistant secretary of Nepal’s Ministry of Civil Aviation, experts have already received the plane’s black boxes containing the cockpit voice recording (CVR) and flight data record (FDR).
The authorities have not yet decided which country to send the black box containing the technical information of the flight, although the source said that “the first option would be Singapore.”
This is the second plane crash in Nepal in less than a year, after a Tara Air company plane crashed in the town of Jomsom on May 29, killing all 22 people. who were on board.
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