At least 40 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in nearly five years

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crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, on Sunday, killing at least 40 people, according to , in the small Himalayan country's worst tragedy in almost five years.

Hundreds of rescue teams combed the mountainside where the Yeti Airlines flight, carrying 72 people from Kathmandu, crashed. According to Jagannath Niroula, spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority, the weather was clear.

According to Aviation Safety Network, the disaster is Nepal's deadliest since March 2018, when a US-Bangla Dash 8 turboprop flight from Dhaka crashed on landing in Kathmandu, killing 51 of the 71 passengers on board. Since 2000, at least 309 people have perished in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal, which is home to eight of the world's fourteen tallest mountains, including Everest, and where the weather can change quickly, creating

. Since 2013, the European Union has barred Nepali planes from using its , citing .

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