There are 30 seconds in which the smile goes to absolute tragedy. From laughter, to fire and to the deafening noise of despair.
The shocking video released by The Times of India is the recording of a live broadcast from the Facebook account of the Indian citizen sonu jaiswalwho was traveling in the company’s ATR 72 Yeti Airlines which crashed this Saturday.
Jaiswal, 35, used his phone to live stream the landing of the flight.
He focuses in selfie mode and then turns the camera so that the ship and the rest of the passengers are visible.
He sticks his lens out the window until the sinister surprises him.
The images become blurry, the mobile falls and only noises are heard. Finally, seconds before the image cuts out, all that is seen is fire.
IT MAY INTEREST YOU: 68 people die when a plane crashes in Nepal
In addition to Jaiswal, three other friends were traveling with him on the ship: Abhishek Kushwaha, Anil Rajbhar Y Bishal Sharma. The whole group was ghazipur in the Indian state of uttar pradesh.
“The video is from Sonu’s Facebook profile”confirmed his cousin Rajat Jaiswal to The Times of India “Sonu was on Facebook live after boarding the flight to Pokhara. The live broadcast showed that Sonu and his companions were in a good mood, but flames suddenly appeared before the broadcast was stopped ”, stated.
At least 68 people died this Sunday when the Jaiswal plane crashed, in which 72 people were traveling.
The burned-out fuselage of the device was in a deep ravine
The plane, a Yeti Airlines ATR 72 from Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital, crashed shortly before eleven in the morning local time (05:15 GMT) near Pokhara (downtown), where it was supposed to land.
“31 (corpses) have been taken to hospitals,” Police official AK Chhetri told AFP, adding that another 36 bodies were found in the ravine where the plane crashed on Sunday.
Pokhara is an important crossing point for foreign pilgrims and mountaineers.
The burned-out fuselage of the device was in a deep ravine between the old Pokhara airport, created in 1958, and the new international terminal in this city, inaugurated on January 1.
After the accident, rescuers tried to put out the fire among the remains of the device, an ATR 72 powered by two turboprop engines.
At night, in the middle of the charred vegetation, soldiers extracted bodies from the plane’s wreckage with the help of ropes and stretchers, an AFP journalist confirmed.
IT MAY INTEREST YOU: SRE regrets death of 72 people after plane crash in Nepal
After the accident, rescuers tried to put out the fire among the remains of the device
like a bomb
A representative of the local authorities assured that “some survivors” were taken to the hospital, but this information was not confirmed by Yeti Airlines or by other officials.
In a statement dated in Toulouse, in southwestern France, ATR, the plane’s manufacturer, specified that it was a 72-500 modeladding that their specialists were “fully committed to supporting both the research and the client”Yeti Airlines.
In a video shared on social media whose authenticity could not be verified, the plane is seen flying low over a residential area before banking sharply to the left, after which a loud explosion is heard.
“I was walking when I heard a loud explosion, as if a bomb had exploded”said Arun Tamu, 44, who was about 500 meters from the impact site and who broadcast a live video with the remains of the plane on fire on the networks.
With information from agencies
