Inside the aircraft, passenger Sonu Jaiswal was shooting smartphone footage of the plane's descent seconds before it veered to the left and crashed into a gorge.
NEW DELHI — Airplane passenger Sonu Jaiswal's 90-second smartphone video began with the aircraft approaching the runway by flying over buildings and green fields over Pokhara, a Nepalese city in the foothills of the Himalayas.
The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that plummeted into a gorge Sunday, killing all 72 on board, was co-piloted by Anju Khatiwada, who had pursued years of pilot training in the United States after her husband died in a 2006 plane crash while flying for the same airline. Her colleagues described her as a skilled pilot who was very motivated.
On Tuesday, authorities began returning some identified bodies to family members and said they were sending the ATR 72-500 aircraft's data recorder to France for analysis to determine what caused the crash. Hundreds of relatives and friends of the victims consoled each other Tuesday at a hospital. Families of some victims whose bodies have been identified prepared funerals for their loved ones."She was a very good pilot and very experienced," Yeti Airlines spokesperson Pemba Sherpa said of Khatiwada.
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