Jakarta, CNNIndonesia —
The four Indians were passengers Yeti Airlines had time to do live Facebook seconds before the plane crashed when it was about to land in Pokhara, Nepal, on Sunday (15/1).
The four friends look excited to record the plane’s landing in the video.
“It’s really fun,” said one of the men in the video, which has been widely shared on social media.
One of the men dressed in a mud brown sweater can be seen sitting by the window of the plane pointing his cell phone around him.
The man named Sonu Jaiswal (29) also had time to show the view outside the window. The plane is seen in the process of landing. Meanwhile, his friends were heard joking around and laughing.
All passengers who were caught on camera also looked calm on the plane. There was no emergency announcement or warning from the pilot or crew.
However, suddenly the plane seemed to turn until it heard a loud roar.
Not long after, we heard screams from the passengers and a roar until we saw bursts of flames. The plane is thought to have crashed, but the cellphone camera is still on and recording the moment.
After that, no passenger voices could be heard. The wreckage of the plane is seen burning for a few moments in the footage before the screen suddenly goes black.
quoted The Guardianthe video shows that the 68 passengers and four crew on board did not know that the plane was in danger before it crashed.
The video was verified by Vishal Koswal (21) a close friend of the four men.
Koswal identified the four men as all from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur district. Besides Jaiswal, three other men namely Vishal Sharma (23), Abhishek Singh Kushwaha (23).
The four friends were about to visit a temple and paragliding site in Nepal’s famous Annapurna mountains.
Koswal said he was actually planning to go with the four friends for a vacation. However, he canceled his trip due to a family member who died.
Koswal said he frequently made video calls with his four friends during their travels, including several hours before the incident occurred.
“Sonu showed us the mountains when video call and obviously (they are) excited, and so are we,” said Koswal.
“He told me on the phone that after landing in Pokhara they would visit some of the temples there and then in the evening catch a train home,” he added.
Koswal described the four friends as like brothers and said everyone in the area was “deeply shocked and emotional” by the tragedy. “
“This all seems like a bad dream, I still can’t believe we have lost everything,” he added.
“I can’t watch the video of the accident anymore, it was very hard and painful. A great tragedy has befallen us.”
The ATR 72 aircraft belonging to Yeti Airlines crashed on Sunday at around 11.00 local time when it was about to land at Pokhara’s new airport. Of the 72 people, including the pilot and crew, only 68 passengers were found.
In the video circulating on social media, the plane swerved before crashing into a ravine in the Seti river valley, causing a loud bang.
Nepal’s civil aviation authority reported that out of a total of 68 passengers found, 37 of them were men, 25 women, three children and three babies.
Fifteen passengers were foreign nationals with details of five Indians, four Russians, two Koreans and one each of Australian, Argentinian, French and Irish citizens.
Until now, the authorities are still carrying out investigations to find out the cause of the plane crash and search for victims who are still missing. The authorities have found the plane’s black box and are now in the hands of the authorities.
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