Sin ninguna esperanza de encontrar sobrevivientes, Nepal decretó este lunes un día de luto nacional tras el desastre aéreo en el que murieron al menos 69 personas , entre ellas una argentina, en la peor catástrofe de ese tipo en el país en tres décadas. “Aún faltan tres cuerpos. Las operaciones [de búsqueda] They were suspended for today. We will resume them tomorrow morning,” said Tek Bahadur KC, head of Taksi district in Pokhara, central Nepal, where the plane crashed on Sunday with 72 people on board, 68 passengers and four crew members.
“The hope of finding someone alive is nil,” he declared hours before. During the searches, no black box was found, she added. The Yeti Airlines twin-engine ATR 72 coming from Kathmandu crashed to the ground shortly before 11 a.m. local time (11:15 p.m. Saturday, Mexico time) near the Pokhara airport, the gateway for hikers of all the world. The burning aircraft was found in a 300 meter deep precipice, between the old airport built in 1958 and the new international terminal inaugurated on January 1. Sunday’s is the deadliest accident in Nepal since 1992, when all 167 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane died when it crashed near Kathmandu. These have been other air incidents that have occurred in the last 10 years:
January 9, 2021: A 62-passenger plane with 62 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, the Indonesian capital. The Sriwijaya Air flight was bound for Pontianak, the capital of West Borneo. The authorities confirmed that all the passengers and crew were Indonesian. The Indonesian investigation indicated that the accident was due to a mechanical failure in the levers of the engines.January 8, 2020: A Boeing 737 aircraft, operated by Ukraine International Airlines, took off early on January 8, 2020 for the Ukrainian capital kyiv with 167 passengers and nine crew members on board. It crashed a few minutes later. 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians were killed in the clash, which took place between the cities of Parand and Shariar, according to a tweet from Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko. Iran confirmed two days later that it had accidentally shot down the aircraft with missiles launched from its air defense system. The plane was mistaken for a “hostile target” after it flew near a “vital” military site of the Revolutionary Guards on the outskirts of the Iranian capital, according to the note, for which it was “involuntarily” shot down, authorities said. Iranians. March 20, 2019: An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 en route to the Kenyan capital Nairobi with 157 people on board crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There were no survivors. The plane, a Boeing 737-800MAX with flight number ET 302, lost contact at 08:44 am local time shortly after taking off at 08:38 am local time from Bole International Airport in the Ethiopian capital. Passengers from 33 countries were on the stricken plane, Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Tewolde GebreMariam told a news conference.
On the ticket were 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Italians, eight Chinese, eight Americans, seven British, seven French, six Egyptians, five Dutch, four Indians, four Slovaks, three Austrians, three Swedes, three Russians, two Moroccans, two Spaniards, two Poles and two Israelis, the Reuters agency reported.
October 29, 2018: An Indonesian company Lion Air plane, another Boeing 737-800MAX, crashed in the Java Sea on October 29, after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 181 passengers and eight crew members. May 18, 2018: A Cubana de Aviación Boeing 737 plane crashed in a field near the José Martí International Airport last Friday around noon. The scene was chaotic, as the plane disintegrated and its tail ended up near a tree. Upon arrival, rescuers found the passengers’ belongings scattered across the field. Flight DMJ 0972 carried 113 people in total: 58 women and 55 men. The crew consisted of six Mexicans. Of the 107 passengers, 102 were Cuban (the majority from the province of Holguín), two were Argentine and one Mexican, according to Granma reports. 112 people died. November 29, 2016: A plane carrying players of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense crashed on the outskirts of the Colombian city of Medellín. 76 people died in the accident.October 31, 2015: An Airbus-A 321 type aircraft traveling on the Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt-Saint Petersburg, Russia route crashed shortly after takeoff. 217 passengers and 7 crew members, including 17 children, died in the accident. December 28, 2014: An AirAsia Airlines Airbus A320-200 aircraft, which was flying from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, disappeared while flying over the Java Sea. 162 people died in the accident. July 17, 2014: A Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 passenger plane traveling from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was struck by a missile while flying over Ukrainian territory. All 298 passengers, along with the crew, lost their lives.March 8, 2014: A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 went missing somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean on a flight covering the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing route. 239 people were traveling and so far the remains of the device have not been found. With information from AFP]]>