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Cargo
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Kasthamandap
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Charter
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Two people were feared dead after a small plane crashed in western Nepal’s Kalikot district. A small plane crashed in bad weather, killing all 23 people on board. The Twin Otter aircraft, operated by private Tara Air, was on a flight from Pokhara .
Detailed explanation-2: -ATR identified the plane involved in Sunday’s crash as an ATR 72-500 in a tweet.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the last three decades, 52 flights have crashed in Nepal. The country ranks 33 out of the 207 countries ordered based on the number of plane crashes between 1990 and 2023 (Chart 1) . With 1, 578 plane crashes, the U.S. leads the list, followed by Russia (464) and Canada (369).
Detailed explanation-4: -A Yeti Airlines aircraft with 72 people on board, including five Indians, plunged into a river gorge in the resort city of Pokhara on January 15. The five Indians, all from Uttar Pradesh, have been identified as Abhisekh Kushwaha, 25, Bishal Sharma, 22, Anil Kumar Rajbhar, 27, Sonu Jaiswal, 35, and Sanjaya Jaiswal.
Detailed explanation-5: -Nepal’s troubled history of crashes More than 900 people, including 350 since 2000, have been killed in air crashes in Nepal since the first crash in Nepal’s Simara in 1955, as per the country’s civil aviation body.