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This afternoon (the 15th) I received some unfortunate news.
A passenger plane carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal, and it was confirmed that two Koreans were on board.
The government dispatched a consul to the area and began to assess the situation.
First of all, I am reporter Moon Jun-mo.
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aircraft flew in, lowering its altitude, and turned nearly 90 degrees to the left.
The aircraft disappears from the screen followed by a roar and the screams of startled people.
Black smoke billows from the hillside where the plane crashed, and rescue workers are busy.
A passenger plane belonging to Nepal Yeti Airlines, which took off from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, this morning crashed in the Kaski district near the destination Pokhara Airport.
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Yeti Air said there were 72 people on board, including 68 passengers and four crew members.
Among them, foreigners explained that they were Indian, Russian, Australian, Argentinian, Irish, and French nationals, including two Koreans.
Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that two Koreans were on board and that they were checking whether they were alive or not.
A consul from the Korean embassy in June was dispatched to the site of the accident, and a task force for the protection of overseas nationals was established at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul.
Nepalese authorities sent a rescue helicopter to the crash site, and hundreds of rescuers searched the crash site and recovered more than 40 bodies.
However, the exact number of casualties is still unknown.
Indian local media reported that all the occupants appeared to have died, but AFP reported that there were survivors, citing officials.
The cause of the accident is still unknown.
The Associated Press reported that the aircraft was 15 years old, and the device that periodically sent flight information to the control center was out of date, making it difficult to trust the data.
(Video editing: Kim Jong-mi, CG: Park Chun-woong · Seo Dong-min, screen source: Twitter)