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| Plane crashes at Nepal's Kathmandu airport | Plane crashes at Nepal's Kathmandu airport |
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| A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal's Kathmandu airport, with at least 17 people known to have survived. | |
| Rescuers have also pulled dead bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, after a fire was put out. | |
| The plane veered off the runway while landing on Monday afternoon. | |
| All flights in and out of Tribhuvan International Airport have been cancelled, according to local media. | |
| The plane was identified in local media as S2-AGU, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, but this has not been officially confirmed. | |
| The flight landed at at 14:20 local time (08:35 GMT), according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24. | |
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