22 bodies recovered, pilot rushed to hospital, in Nepal air crash

Pokhara-bound Saurya Airlines aircraft crashed in Kathmandu soon after take off. The plane was carrying 19 people caught fire immediately after the crash. Flight Captain Shakya has survived and has been rushed to the hospital.

After multiple hours of the rescue ops being underway, it is learnt that twenty-two dead bodies have been recovered and one injured person has been hospitalized, after a plane crashed on Wednesday at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

This was confirmed by Hansa Raj Pandey, spokesman at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal.