Nepal plane crash: Passenger video appears to show harrowing final moments of doomed flight - CBS News

1 year ago 57

Dozens killed successful Nepal level clang

Dozens killed successful Nepal's worst level clang successful decades 01:37

A cellphone video taken by a rider connected the Yeti Airlines level that crashed successful Nepal appears to amusement the harrowing last moments of the flight.

Indian nationalist Sonu Jaiswal, who was traveling with 3 friends, seemed blessed and calm arsenic helium pointed his telephone camera retired the level model and astir the cabin. But aft a abrupt jolt, the camera changeable goes unsteady. Within seconds, fume obscures the presumption and there's a consciousness of chaos arsenic radical shriek and the surface fills with flames. It appears to corroborate determination was nary denotation of a informing earlier the crash.

Indian constabulary person confirmed the individuality of the passengers seen successful the video, but the authenticity of the afloat video and everything it shows remained unclear connected Monday.

The Yeti Airlines ATR 72-500 turboprop craft was flying from India to Nepal erstwhile it went down abruptly connected attack to a recently opened airdrome successful the metropolis of Pokhara. It is believed that each 72 radical aboard the formation were killed.

Yeti Airlines confirmed that the flight information and cockpit dependable recorders — the alleged achromatic boxes — were recovered connected Monday, a time aft the level went down, which could assistance find a origin for the crash.

Dhirendra Pratap Singh, an inspector astatine the Bersar Police Station successful India, the municipality successful which the 4 Indian victims of the clang lived, told CBS News' Arshad Zargar that he'd met with the 4 men's families and confirmed their identities from the video.

It remained unclear however, however the video, which Singh said was changeable by Jaiswal, got onto societal media connected Monday, wherever it dispersed quickly. There were reports that it was either livestreamed connected Facebook, oregon recovered connected a telephone that someway survived the crash.

Singh could not clarify that portion of the communicative to CBS News, and said helium couldn't accidental whether the video had been altered successful immoderate way.

In the archetypal portion of the video, Jaiswal captured images of the level making what seemed to beryllium a regular descent, with recognizable buildings and roads of Pokhara below.

A witnesser who recorded video of the plane's descent from the crushed said it looked similar a mean landing until the level abruptly turned sharply to the left.

"I saw that, and I was shocked," Diwas Bohora told The Associated Press. "I thought that contiguous everything volition beryllium finished present aft it crashes, I volition besides beryllium dead."

He said the crushed shook violently and flames changeable up from the country of the clang not acold from wherever helium stood.

"Seeing that scene, I was scared," helium said.