Turkish Airline Crash in Kathmandu, Nepal

 A Turkish Airlines jet carrying 238 passengers crash-landed in Nepal after skidding off a slippery runway.

Air authorities said that the plane, which was arriving from Istanbul in Turkey, came off the runway in Nepal's capital Kathmandu in the early hours of this morning due to low visibility.

All the passengers and 11 crew members of the Airbus A330 were said to be safe, as officials confirmed there were no serious injuries after the accident. Two consecutive days of rain had left the runway at Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal's capital extremely slippery and there was dense fog at the time. The plane, which was on a seven-hour flight from the Turkish capital, was forced to circle for 30 minutes over Nepal before it made a second attempt to land.

 

The runway remains closed after incident.