
KATHMANDU, Nepal — A plane slipped off a runway and crashed during takeoff here on Wednesday morning, killing everyone on board except the pilot, according to Nepali police.
Rescue teams recovered 18 bodies after the Saurya Airlines passenger plane, carrying airline maintenance workers and one international passenger, crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, Dan Bahadur Karki, deputy inspector general of the Nepal Police, told The Washington Post.