A plane crash in Nepal killed at least 68 people Sunday morning. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from Newsweek, FoxBusiness, and USATODAY.
was with Pokhara airport around 10:50 AM local time, approximately 18 minutes after its takeoff. 72 passengers were aboard the jet. As of Sunday afternoon Eastern Time, 4 passengers are still reported as missing.
The crash is the most deadly in Nepal since 1992 when a plane crashed near the nation’s capital of Kathmandu, killing all 167 people aboard. Nepalese airlines have been banned in the European Union since 2013, due to what the 27-nation bloc considers weak safety standards. The EU hasThe accident has been covered widely and similarly across the political spectrum. The story is still developing.
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