50 killed in Kathmandu, Bangladeshi airline crash

Flight BS211, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, operated by Bangladeshi Airline US- Bangla, veered off the runway and crashed on landing at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport after a raging fire on Monday afternoon Killing 50 people. Of the 50 people killed, 31 died at the airport and nineteen in hospital according to local police.

22 survived the ordeal and some are in a critical condition and one survivor who managed to break through a window says the aircraft gave a violent shake, followed by a bang. The 17-year-old plane was flying from Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital to Kathmandu. The plane landed at 14:20 local time (08:35 GMT) according to flightradar24. In 1992, a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok crashed while trying to land in Kathmandu, killing all 113 people aboard.