Emergency personnel work around the wreckage of a plane that crashed while landing at the Tribhuvan Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Monday, March 12. Flight BS 211, which was flying in from Dhaka, Bangladesh, crashed and burst into flames after approaching the runway from the wrong direction, officials said. Dozens were killed.
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Plane crash survivor Sanam Shakya, center, talks with his parents at a hospital in Kathmandu.
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Staff from US-Bangla Airlines, a privately owned Bangladeshi carrier, work at an office in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 12. Flight BS 211 belongs to US-Bangla.
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Rescuers gather around the crash site on March 12.
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Rescuers work to recover victims on March 12. Officials said 40 bodies were recovered at the scene and nine died at the hospital. Twenty-two survivors were receiving treatment.
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Firefighters hose down the plane.
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A rescuer searches the plane's debris. The aircraft's two recorders -- the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder -- have been recovered.
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Emergency crews work around the crash site.
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Onlookers gather near the scene of the crash. The passengers were mainly Nepalese and Bangladeshi.
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Fire trucks work to extinguish the plane's smoldering wreckage.
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Rescuers survey the crash site.
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Emergency teams work around the wreckage.
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Rescuers survey the plane's smoking debris.
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Crews respond to the crash. According to Flightradar24, the plane was a Bombardier Dash 8 Q400, which the company describes as "the world's most modern turboprop."
