PLANE CRASH IN NEPAL KILLS 49
At least 49 people were killed on Monday when a Bangladeshi airliner crashed in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the Nepalese capital’s hill-ringed airport, officials said. The chief executive officer of US-Bangla Airlines, Imran Asif, accused Kathmandu’s air traffic control for giving wrong signals.But airport general manager Raj Kumar Chettri said the pilot disregarded their messages and came in from the wrong direction. Seventy one people were on board the plane arriving from Dhaka when it clipped the fence at Kathmandu and burst into flames, Chettri said.There were 33 Nepali passengers, 32 from Bangladesh, one from China and one from the Maldives.