49 dead in plane crash at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport

At least 49 people were killed when a plane approached the runway from the wrong direction, crashed and burst into flames while landing at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Airport in Nepal on Monday.

Flight BS 211, which belongs to US-Bangla Airlines, a privately owned Bangladeshi carrier, was flying from Dhaka, Bangladesh, police spokesperson Manoj Neupane said.

There were 71 passengers on the plane, including the crew, said Kamrul Islam, the head of public relations for US-Bangla.

Forty bodies were recovered at the scene, nine died in hospital and 22 survivors are receiving treatment in hospital after the crash at 2:15 p.m. local time, Neupane said.

Emergency personnel work around the wreckage of a plane that crashed while landing at the Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, March 12. Flight BS 211, which was flying in from Dhaka, Bangladesh, crashed and burst into flames after approaching the runway from the wrong direction, officials said. Dozens were killed.

Plane crash survivor Sanam Shakya, center, talks with his parents at a hospital in Kathmandu.

Staff from US-Bangla Airlines, a privately owned Bangladeshi carrier, work at an office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 12. Flight BS 211 belongs to US-Bangla.

Rescuers gather around the crash site on March 12.

Rescuers work to recover victims on March 12. Officials said 40 bodies were recovered at the scene and nine died at the hospital. Twenty-two survivors were receiving treatment.

Firefighters hose down the plane.

A rescuer searches the plane's debris. The aircraft's two recorders -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder -- have been recovered.