Danes survive as plane crash in Nepal kills 15

A PLANE crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal yesterday, killing 15 people and injuring six, some critically.

It was carrying two pilots and a flight attendant – all Nepalese – along with 16 Indians and two Danish citizens, both of whom survived, officials said.

Television footage showed the Danes being taken inside a hospital in the nearby city of Pokhara, the man being led on foot and the woman crying in pain as she was carried on a stretcher.

The plane was turning to land at Jomsom Airport when it crashed Survivor Emilie Joergensen said: “We were thrown around. The seats were unfastened and we were squeezed between seats and bodies,”

She described how passengers had to said they had to climb over “hands and arms” to get out of the plane adding: “I think it was easy for us to get out because we sat in the back and were closest to the exit.”