{"id":54607,"date":"2024-07-24T19:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54607"},"modified":"2024-07-24T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:27:18","slug":"plane-crashes-on-takeoff-in-kathmandu-with-19-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54607","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes on takeoff in Kathmandu with 19 aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A plane crashed during takeoff in Nepal&#8217;s capital Kathmandu on Wednesday morning with 19 people aboard, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported citing an airport official.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said the Saurya Airlines plane crashed at around 11:00 am (0515 GMT) with police and firefighters engaged in rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nineteen people, including aircrew, were aboard,&#8221; the paper reported, quoting airport spokesperson Premnath Thakur.<\/p>\n<p>News portal Khabarhub reported that the airplane had caught fire and was &#8220;releasing a significant plume of smoke&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was en route to Pokhara, an important tourism hub in the Himalayan republic.<\/p>\n<p>Saurya Airlines exclusively flies Bombardier CRJ 200 jets, according to its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plane crashed during takeoff in Nepal&#8217;s capital Kathmandu on Wednesday morning with 19 people aboard, the Kathmandu Post newspaper reported citing an airport official. The newspaper said the Saurya Airlines plane crashed at around 11:00 am (0515 GMT) with police and firefighters engaged in rescue efforts. &#8220;Nineteen people, including aircrew, were aboard,&#8221; the paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2004],"class_list":["post-54607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-plane-crashes-on-takeoff-in-kathmandu-with-19-aboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}