Yeti Airlines passenger plane crashes in Nepal
A Yeti Airlines plane crashed on Sunday morning in Nepal, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said. A Yeti Airlines passenger plane crash ed on Sunday morning in Nepal, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Twitter. The plane had been flying from Kathmandu, the capital, to Pokhara, a city in central Nepal, the minister said. Crowds gather at the crash site of an aircraft in Pokhara in western Nepal Jan. 15, 2023. Sagar Raj Timilsina/Handout via Reuters The aircraft for Yeti Airlines flight YT691 was a 15-year-old ATR 72-500, a twin-engine turboprop airliner, according to Flightradar24, the flight tracker. "This aircraft was equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data," the flight tracker said. "We are downloading high resolution data and verifying the data quality." The aircraft departed Kathmandu on time at 10:32 a.m. local time, with an estimated time of arrival at 10:59 a.m., according to the flight tracker. The average flight time for the trip was...