A shocking video that went viral on social networks appears to show a live broadcast made from the Facebook account of one of the 72 people on board the plane that crashed this Sunday in Nepal.
The bodies of 69 people have already been recovered, and rescue teams do not anticipate finding any survivors.
The author of the video was identified as 29-year-old Sonu Jaiswal, The Times of India reports, citing a man claiming to be his cousin, Rajat Jaiswal.
“Sonu started a Facebook Live after boarding the flight to Pokhara,” Jaiswal explained to the newspaper, “the broadcast showed that
Sonu and his companions were in good spirits, but flames suddenly appeared
before the broadcast stopped.”
According to this source, the friends are Abhishek Kusgwaha, Anil Rajbhar and Bishal Sharma.
All were from Ghazipur, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the newspaper.
The video lasts a minute and a half: first the landscape is seen from the plane as it descends, then it focuses on the face of the author and other passengers and, suddenly, the images become blurry, it seems to be heard and seen how the cell phone falls, they are heard a lot of noises and an image full of fire appears that lasts about 30 seconds.
Attention, the video has images that may hurt your sensitivity:
The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 plane came from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and crashed near the city of Pokhara, where it was going, shortly before 11 in the morning (local time).
According to the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority, the travelers included 53 Nepalis, five Indians, four Russians, one Irishman, one Australian, one Argentine, two Koreans and one Frenchman.
Also traveling on board was Argentine Jannet Sandra Palavecino, 58, mother of two children, mountaineer, hotel businesswoman and native of the province of Neuquén, in the southwest of the country, as confirmed by the newspaper La Nación.
Her corpse has already been found.
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According to Prem Nath Thakur, a spokesman for Kathmandu International Airport, rescue teams recovered the black boxes from the plane on Monday while searching for possible survivors.
Three people remain to be located, who are feared to have fallen into the deep gorge located next to the place where the plane fell.
The finding can clarify the causes of the incident, since these devices record technical information such as the route, speed, altitude and the situation of the plane's engine, as well as voice recordings inside the pilots' cabin.
In addition to the video supposedly recorded from inside the device, another one allegedly captured from the outside was also known that seems to show the seconds before the accident.
The delivery of the already identified bodies to their families began this Monday once the autopsy was carried out, while the bodies of foreigners are expected to be transferred to the capital today.
On the occasion of the incident, the Nepalese government declared this Monday as a day of national mourning in memory of the victims.
This is the second air accident in the country in less than a year, after a Tara Air company plane crashed in Jomsom on May 29, killing all 22 occupants.
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Since November 1960, when the country's first plane crash occurred, more than 900 people have been killed in such accidents, according to Nepal's civil aviation authority.
Nepal has received international sanctions for lack of air safety;
In 2013, the European Union banned Nepali airlines from flying over its territory.
With information from the AP and Efe news agencies.