Nepal plane crash: Three surviving Indians critical

May 14, 2012 11:46

Updates on the Nepal plane crash: Three of the 16 Indians, who survived are critical. Two are children and one is believed to be elderly.

"The plane was about to land at Jomsom airport. It hit a muddy slope and the plane is now buried in the side of the hill," police spokesman Binod Singh told the AFP news agency.

A BBC report says that aviation accidents involving small aircraft are not uncommon in mountainous Nepal. Last year 19 people were killed when a plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed outside Kathmandu.

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