Kathmandu: At least 18 people were killed when a small aircraft carrying tourists to Mount Everest crashed while landing in a dense fog in Nepal on Sunday.
Sources said that the Buddha Air plane carrying 10 Indian passengers, one local and five other foreign tourists besides three Nepali crew member crashed into a hillside in heavy rain and fog at Godavari, 10km from Kathmandu.
A witness said that 18 bodies were pulled out of the wreckage of the Beechcraft plane while one tourist has been rescued.
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