Hundreds of rescue workers were scouring the hillside where the Yeti Airlines flight, carrying 72 people from Kathmandu, went down. Some of the ground near the crash site was scorched, with licks of flames visible.
KATHMANDU, Jan 15 - At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country's Civil Aviation Authority said, in the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation.
Local TV showed rescue workers scrambling around broken sections of the aircraft. Some of the ground near the crash site was scorched, with licks of flames visible. The plane made contact with the airport from Seti Gorge at 10:50 a.m. , the aviation authority said in its statement. "Then it crashed."
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