- Plane crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal
- Flight had arrived from Dhaka, Bangladesh, when it careened off the runway
- Plane was carrying 67 passengers and four crew members when it crashed
- At least 50 people have died and 23 have so far been taken to hospital
Dozens of people have been killed in a plane crash at an airport in Kathmandu, Nepal on Monday.
The flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh, landed on the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal, but ended up careening off the runway and crashing, bursting into flames.
Nepal army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Gokul Bhandari, said 50 people had died and the fate of the others was unknown.
Crash: The passenger flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh, landed in Kathmandu, Nepal, but ended up careening off the runway and crashing in a nearby field
Tragedy: At least 50 people died when the plane crashed at the main airport Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal
The airplane had carried 67 passengers and four crew members from Bangladesh to Nepal.
Airline spokesman Kamrul Islam said 33 of the passengers were Nepali, 32 were Bangladeshi, one was Chinese and one from the Maldives.
‘All of a sudden the plane shook violently and there was a loud bang,’ one of the survivors, Basanta Bohora, told the Kathmandu Post daily.
‘I was seated near a window and was able to break out of the window.’
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but a statement from airport authorities said the plane was ‘out of control’ as it came in to land.
Basanta Bohara, 27, a survivor from the US-Bangla plane crash lies on a hospital bed while undergoing treatment in Kathmandu
Eye witnesses said the plane, a Canadian-made Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, crashed as it made a second attempt to land.
‘There might be technical problems on the aircraft. But it has to be probed before making a final statement,’ Mahbubur Rahman of Bangladesh’s civil aviation ministry said.
Earlier in the day, a police official said at least 38 people had died, 23 had been injured and ten were unaccounted for.
Several passengers rescued are reported to have later died in hospital.
Scene: Emergency services were quick to put out the flames after the plane crashed
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