The bodies of 18 out of the 19 people on board a Kathmandu flight were recovered after the plane crashed at a Nepal airport on Wednesday, local media said.
The passengers, comprising crew and technical staff, were on board the Pokhara-bound Saurya Airlines plane when it caught on fire around 11 am, the Nepal military said. The pilot of the aircraft has been taken to a hospital, a security official deployed at the airport told news agency PTI.