Kathmandu Airport Plane Crash: US-Bangla Airlines crashes with 79 onboard, at least 8 dead

A Bangladesh airline passenger aircraft crashed while descending at Nepal's Kathmandu airport on Monday, an airport official said. 8 bodies have been recovered so far, reporter Reuters. 

"We are trying to bring the fire under control. Details are awaited," airport spokesman Birendra Prasad Shrestha said. According the reports the aircraft skidded while trying to land.

Rescue workers recovered badly burnt bodies from the wreckage of a Bangladeshi aircraft that crashed while coming in to land at Nepal's Kathmandu airport on Monday, a Reuters witness said.

There were 71 people on board the plane and 17 had been rescued, an airport official said earlier. The number of dead and injured was not known.

A Reuters photographer said he could see bodies covered in cloth laid out near the tarmac of the airport.

BREAKING: Plane crash at Kathmandu Airport, Nepal. Reports say it belonged to US-Bangla Airlines of Bangladesh & was a Fokker F28 (although online fleet lists state 4 Boeing 737 & 4 Dash 8 are operated). Unconfirmed reports of no survivors. | Pic credits TBA. pic.twitter.com/VzWOW4amLp

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