The four passengers were all from the Uttar Pradesh town of Ghazipur
Lucknow: The four passengers on the ill-fated Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, on Sunday were live on Facebook sharing their flight experience minutes before the plane went down.
One of them can be seen excitedly shouting “Mauj Kar Di” (it’s been fun) as the camera focuses on Pokhara town below in the 1.3-minute live video on Facebook.
Sonu Jaiswal is also featured on the phone camera (29). However, after 58 seconds, the video shows the aircraft making a sharp left turn before crashing and bursting into flames. For the next 30 seconds, the phone camera captured glimpses of towering flames around it.
These four passengers from Ghazipur’s Baresar were among five Indians killed in the crash, along with 68 other passengers.
Sonu Jaiswal, 29, Anil Rajbhar, 28, Vishal Sharma, 23, and Abhishek Singh Kushwaha, 23, had arrived in Kathmandu on January 13 and were on their way to Pokhara for paragliding after performing puja at the Pashupatinath temple.
On Sunday, a cloud of doom descended on the four villages in the Ghazipur district’s Baresar and Nonahara areas.
Sonu Jaiswal was a liquor trader, and Anil Rajbhar and Abhishek Kushwaha ran Jan Sewa centres in Ghazipur’s Zahoorabad and Alawalpur.
Vishal Sharma worked as a finance officer for a two-wheeler company.
The video was posted on Sonu’s Facebook page, according to his cousin Rajat Jaiswal.
“After boarding the flight to Pokhara, Sonu went live on Facebook. “The live-streaming showed Sonu and his friends in a good mood, but then flames appeared before the streaming stopped,” he explained.
The Ghazipur district magistrate’s office informed them of the death of four men from the district in a plane crash in Nepal.
Devendra Pratap Singh, SHO of Baresar, stated that they confirmed the identity of the four, and that he then went to Anil Rajbhar’s house and met his father Ramdharas.
“Ramdharas informed us that the four — Anil, Abhishek, Vishal, and Sonu — had left for Nepal on January 13 with the intention of staying for a week,” Singh said.
Balram Singh, Kasimabad Circle Officer, stated that he and the SDM visited the four youths’ homes and assured their families of their full cooperation in bringing their bodies back.
“We have received calls from the Nepalese and Indian embassies in the last three hours,” Abhishek’s elder brother Abhinay said. We’ve been told that bodies will arrive in Delhi on Monday morning.”
