The Yeti Airlines passenger plane carrying 72 people onboard crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara on Sunday. Everyone on the plane is reportedly dead.
The Cirium Fleets data, which tracks aircraft fleet, equipment and its cost, states that the Yeti Airlines’ 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft, which crashed into a river gorge, was previously owned by the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya in 2007. Six years later, the aircraft was purchased by Thailand’s Nok Air before it was sold to Nepal’s Yeti Airlines in 2019.
The plane was carrying 68 passengers, including 15 foreign nationals, as well as four crew members. The foreigners included five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Ireland, Australia, Argentina and France.
Of the five Indians, four were from the Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh who went to Nepal on January 13 on holiday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that the Nepalese passenger plane took off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am on Sunday and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in Pokhara, a tourist town, minutes before landing.
