Plane with 11 people on board crashes in western Nepal, both pilots killed

Kathmandu: The two pilots were killed when a small passenger plane crash-landed in Nepal on Friday but all nine passengers survived, an airport official said.

"The two pilots are dead, the nine passengers are injured," said Bhola Prasad Guragain, a spokesman for the Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu.

He said the plane belonging to Kasthamandap Airlines appeared to have technical trouble Friday and attempted to land on a farmer's field near the top of a mountain and crashed.

The remote area is at least four hours' trek from the nearest town. Police and army rescuers are on their way to the site and a helicopter has been called in from Kathmandu, the capital.

Officials had earlier said that eight people were on the plane.

On Wednesday, 23 people were killed in a plane crash in central Nepal.