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Pilot is sole survivor in Nepal plane crash
The pilot is the sole survivor of a fiery plane crash at Kathmandu airport in Nepal.
The other 18 passengers and crew died.
The Saurya Airlines flight crashed seconds after taking off.
Airport chief Jagannath Niraula said the plane plummeted to the ground less than a minute after getting airborne.
It looks like pilot or air traffic control error may be a cause.
“As soon as it took off, it turned right, when it should have turned left,” Niraula said.
It was a test flight flying to Pokhara, as part of a routine crew maintenance schedule.
All occupants on the plane were crew or airline technicians.
The plane was a 50-seater CRJ200 aircraft.
Nepal has a generally poor air safety record often due to the treacherous weather and its high altitude airport locations.
Nearly 350 people have died in air crashes since 2000.
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