Photos: Nepal Plane Crash- REPORT

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Dornier aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff

REPORT
Two brothers and a 27-year-old Londoner are among the seven British trekkers who have been killed in a plane crash in Nepal as witnesses have described how they heard the 'wailing and screaming' of terrified passengers in the burning wreckage. 

The victims were named today by local travel company Sherpa Adventures as Raymond Eagle, 58, Christopher Davey, 51, brothers Vincent Kelly, 50, and Darren Kelly, 45, Timothy Oakes, 57, Stephen Holding, 60, and Benjamin Ogden, 27, according to the Press Association. 

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said the families of the victims had all been informed.

The twin-engine aircraft, operated by domestic carrier Sita Air, was carrying trekkers to the Everest region and came down two or three minutes after take-off near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of the capital Kathmandu, killing 19 people in total. 

The Britons had been due to begin a 16 day trek in the Himalayas, starting at Everest Base Camp, with Hampshire travel firm Explore Worldwide today.

As a number of badly burned bodies lay just metres from the aircraft's shattered fuselage, bystanders described hearing desperate screams and flames coming from one of the plane's wings moments before it hit the ground at around 6.30am (00.45 GMT).

More Images after the cut.
Fireball: Firefighters battle to douse the burning wreckage of a plane after it came down in a field just minutes after takning off from Kathmandu Airport
No survivors: Onlookers watch on helplessly around the blazing plane which crashed on the edge of the Nepalese capital, killing 19 people including seven Britons

Doomed: Mobile phone video shot by locals showed the front section of the plane was on fire when it first hit the ground

Wreckage of the Sita Air Dornier aircraft

The black box of the crashed Sita Air plane Nepalese rescue team members move bodies
The black box was recovered and taken by Napalese officers
Macabre clear-up: The victims are carried away from the scene by police rescuers who had tried to pull the bodies from the wreckage as firefighters battled the flames
Police officers carry bodies of the Victims away from the site
Disaster: The plane, operated by domestic carrier Sita Air, came down just 500 yards from where it took off and appeared to be trying to return there when it came down

Read more about the crash HERE

 Source: Daily Mail

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