Mountainous Nepal, where at least 40 people were killed when a plane crashed in the tourist town of Pokhara on Sunday, has a history of deadly air crashes.
Here are the details of plane and helicopter crashes this century in the Himalayan country, where many airlines fly to remote mountains and cloud-shrouded mountains and small airports cut off from roads.
January 15, 2023
A twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft carrying 72 people, operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, crashed in Pokhara, killing at least 40 people. Officials said the death toll could rise as the plane broke into pieces.
May 29, 2022
Sixteen Nepalese, four Indians and two Germans were killed in a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter aircraft that crashed 15 minutes after taking off from Pokhara, 125 km (80 miles) west of Kathmandu, on Sunday morning.
February 27, 2019
A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister.
March 12, 2018
Fifty-one of the 71 people on board the Bangladeshi plane were killed when it crashed in cloudy weather on its way to land at the hilly airport in Nepal’s capital.