Ticketless passenger killed in Nepal aircrash

Kumar Magar, an armyman, boarded the Sita Airways flight to Lukla without a ticket, myrepublica online reported.

All 19 people, including seven Britons and five Chinese, aboard the small plane were killed when the aircraft crashed and burned after a bird hit as soon as it took off from the Nepalese capital.

Sixteen passengers and three crew members who were heading towards Lukla, gateway to Mt Everest, for trekking in the mountain region, were all killed when the Dornier aircraft crashed two minutes after it took off at 6:15 am (local time) from the Tribhuvan International Airport, officials said.

The seven Nepalis killed in the crash include three crew members-- Pilot Bijaya Tandukar, Co-pilot Take Singh Thapa and airhostess Ruja Shakya