KATHMANDU, JULY 24

The details of the flight crew and the passengers on board the Saurya Airlines plane that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) this morning have been released.

According to the list provided, the pilot crew of the ill-fated flight included Captain Manish Shakya and Co-Pilot Susant Katuwal.

The crash occurred shortly after the Saurya Airlines plane, 9N-AME, took off for Pokhara from Kathmandu at around 11:11 AM. The aircraft crashed in the eastern part of the runway.

The passengers on board, all of whom were airline staff, were identified as:

Amit Man Maharjan

Sagar Acharya

Dilip Verma

Manu Raj Sharma

Ashwin Niroula

Sudip Lal Joshi

Sarbesh Marasain

Shyam Bindukar

Navaraj Ale

Rajaram Acharya

Priza Katiwada

Adhiraj Sharma

Uddhab Puri

Yagya Pd Paudyal

Santosh Mahato

Punya Ratna Sahi

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