'Only the captain was rescued alive and is receiving treatment at a hospital,' Tej Bahadur Poudyal, a spokesman for Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, says
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The plane, carrying two crew members and 17 technicians, was going for regular maintenance to Nepal’s new Pokhara airport, which opened last January and is equipped with aircraft maintenance hangars, they said. Other visuals showed rescue workers rummaging through the charred remains of the plane, strewn in lush green fields. Bodies were carried to ambulances on stretchers as local residents looked on, the television showed.A Saurya Airlines official said the plane was a 50-seater CRJ200 aircraft.
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