Tourists among 14 dead in Nepal plane crash

A SMALL passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain yesterday outside Nepal’s capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.

The private Agni Air plane went down near Shikharpur village, about 80km south of Katmandu, area police chief Ram Bahadur Shrestha said.

The German-built Dornier turboprop airplane was carrying 11 passengers and three crew members.