Japanese tourist among dead in Nepal air crash. Buddha Air Beech 1900D, 9N-AEK, Flight U4-103. Kathmandu.

A small plane carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed in bad weather Sunday near Nepal's capital, Katmandu, killing all 19 people on board including one Japanese citizen, officials said. The turboprop Beech aircraft owned by Buddha Air crashed into a hill in Kotdanda of Lalitpur district, a few kilometers south of Katmandu, said Rupesh Joshi, marketing manager of the privately owned airline. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear. Nepal television confirmed that 18 bodies were pulled out from the plane's wreckage by locals and police. One person who was found alive later died while receiving treatment at a hospital in the district, the television said.

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