The shocking video made by a passenger before the plane crash in Nepal

A cell phone recovered from the wreckage of the flight Yeti Airlines crashed today in Nepal contains images of the last moments of the flight.

The twin-engine ATR 72 of Kathmandu – on which 72 people were travelling- crashed shortly before landing in Pokhara, a major tourist destination in the Himalayan nation.

At least 68 of the passengers died. One of them was 57-year-old Argentinean Jannet Palavecinowho went mountaineering and ran a hotel that his family had founded in the capital of Neuquén.

The video with the last images before the plane crash in Nepal

The video, which is circulating on social media, It starts with images of the passengers sitting inside the plane and the city view from the window as the plane turns before landing.

Suddenly an explosion occurs and the screen turns upside down. The last seconds show a terrible fire outside the window and the anguished cries of the passengers are heard.

While the video’s authenticity has not yet been formally verified, there remains little doubt as to its provenance.

Another video from the ground captured the progress of the flight as it began to land. Suddenly, the plane banked to the left, flipped over, and reportedly exploded into a fireball.

There were five Indian passengers on board, all originally from Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh).

Apparently one of them, Sonu Jaiswal, was doing a Facebook Live shortly before the flight crashed. He is one of the deceased. The same video can be found on his Facebook account.

Abhishek Pratap Shah, a former Nepalese MP and Nepali Congress Central Committee member, who sent the video recording, told Nepal’s NDTV network that he received the video from a friend and it was recovered from the rubble today.

“It was sent by one of my friends, who received it from a member of the police. It’s a real recording. It’s today’s video, when the flight was about to landr,” Shah told NDTV in an exclusive interview.

Rescue efforts should continue tomorrow and a search for the plane’s black box is expected, which could shed light on the causes of the accident. Pokhara is just a 25-minute flight from Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan nation.

The risks of air travel in Nepal

The aviation sector in Nepal has recently witnessed several plane crashes and there have been concerns about the safety and training of flight crews.

Since 2013, the European Union has blacklisted Nepal for flight safety. Flights from Nepal were in fact banned in the airspace of the European Union after the International Civil Aviation Organization reported serious safety problems.

“This aircraft is the best we have in Nepal and all major airlines have used the same aircraft.‘ said Shah trying to contradict the bad reputation of that country’s airlines.

However, noting that Pokhara is a tourist hotspot, the Nepalese authorities noted that the country needs to “improve our aviation system, our aircraft, information system and pilots as well”.