Nepal crash: Airport had no instrument landing system

A French investigator takes a photo of the wreckage of a passenger plane at the crash site, in Pokhara, Nepal (Yunish Gurung/AP)

The newly opened airport in Nepal where a plane was trying to land when it crashed at the weekend did not have a working instrument landing system guiding aircraft to the runway, an official said.

All 72 people on the Yeti Airlines plane died.