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Plane crash lands in Nepal

Wednesday, 4 March 20153 min read
Plane crash lands in Nepal

All 238 passengers and crew on a Turkish Airlines plane escaped without serious injury after it crashed landed in heavy fog at an airport in Nepal.

The A330 nose-dived on the runway at Kathmandu’s international airport, coming to rest on a grass verge.

Some of the passengers were given medical treatment after the plane’s evacuation, but none was seriously hurt.

Flight THY726 had arrived after a seven-hour flight from Istanbul, said the Telegraph. It had circuled for 30 minutes before it made a second attempt to land, but the runway was reportedly

Photographs of the aircraft lying on grass close to the fire station at Tribhuvan International Airport have been posted on Twitter. The above image was posted by Tweeter @sashinkarki.