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Bangladeshi Airline US-Bangla Flight BS211 Veers Off Runway in Nepal 49 Dead

A Bangladeshi airline Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop veered off the runway after landing in Kathmandu resulting in the deaths of 49 people.

A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport, killing 49 people, according to police. Rescuers pulled bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, after a raging fire was put out.

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A Bangladeshi airline Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop veered off the runway after landing in Kathmandu resulting in the deaths of 49 people.

A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport, killing 49 people, according to police. Rescuers pulled bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, after a raging fire was put out.

The airline has blamed air traffic control, but the airport says the plane approached from the wrong direction. Flight BS211 veered off the runway while landing on Monday afternoon. A recording of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control minutes before the plane crashed suggests some misunderstanding over which end of the sole runway the plane was cleared to land on. – BBC News

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