A Bangladeshi airliner with 67 people on board crashed on Monday while coming in to land at the airport in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, killing at least 38 people.
Flight BS211 veered off the runway while landing on Monday afternoon.
All flights in and out of Tribhuvan International Airport have been cancelled, according to local media.
The plane, which was flying from the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, was identified in local media as S2-AGU, a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, but this has not been officially confirmed.
Huge, dark gray columns of smoke uncoiled from the field as rescuers tried to save as many people as possible from the burning wreckage.
The plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, swerved off the runway as it was landing in Nepal’s capital around 2:20 p.m. local time, the BBC reported. There were 67 passengers and four crew members on board, officials said.
"It was flying so low I thought it was going to run into the mountains," Amanda Summers, an American who works in Nepal, told The Associated Press after watching the crash. "All of a sudden there was a blast and then another blast.”
At least 30 air passengers have died and 10 others are missing after a passenger plane came off the runway during landing at Kathmandu airport
US-Bangla is a private Bangladeshi carrier. The flight was arriving at the airport from Dhaka, Bangladesh.