The US-Bangla Airlines flight from Dhaka swerved repeatedly as it descended towards Tribhuvan International Airport, witnesses said. Huge plumes of smoke were seen over the airport after the plane crashed at 2.40 pm local time and caught fire. “I was seated near a window and was able to break out of the window.”#WATCH: A plane has crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was just terrible.”Flights to Tribhuvan International Airport were diverted after it was closed for more than two hours following the crash. The accident was the deadliest since September 1992, when all 167 people aboard a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed as it approached Kathmandu airport.

Source: Hindustan Times March 12, 2018 09:24 UTC