Long wait for the Indian family whose Nepal crash video went viral.
The 90-second smartphone footage taken by Sonu Jaiswal shows the plane approaching the Pokhara runway just before it crashed.
Sonu Jaiswal’s family is heartbroken and can’t stop thinking about him. They are waiting in Ghazipur, India, for his body to be found so they can identify his remains.
brother of Jaiswal, Deepak Jaiswal, remarked, “It’s a difficult wait.”
Sonu Jaiswal, 25, was a passenger on the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed into a ravine just before it was supposed to land in Pokhara on Sunday, killing everyone on board and all 72 people.
Jaiswal was livestreaming the plane’s landing on Facebook just before it crashed.
The 90-second smartphone footage started with the plane flying over buildings and lush fields over Pokhara, a Nepalese city in the foothills of the Himalayas, as it approached the airstrip.
As Jaiswal’s video cut from the stunning scenery viewed via the plane’s window to passengers laughing, everything appeared to be as usual. Finally, Jaiswal turned the camera to himself and grinned while donning a yellow sweater.
Then it took place.
Jaiswal’s phone momentarily recorded the cries of passengers as the jet abruptly appeared to swerve to the left. The video began to shake shortly after, and an engine’s shrieking noise could be heard. Large flames and smoke filled the frame toward the end of the film.
When news networks started showing pictures of the aircraft’s twisted wreckage, still blazing and spewing thick grey smoke, the news of Jaiswal’s plane crashing in Pokhara hardly had time to happen before it reached his home, according to his brother Deepak.
The family was still holding out hope for his survival and was unwilling to accept the bad news.
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But by Sunday night, everything had become obvious. One of the first members of his family to view the video that has since gone popular online was Deepak, who provided confirmation of the validity of Jaiswal’s livestream to The Associated Press news agency.
“Until we viewed the footage, we couldn’t believe the news,” he claimed. “It hurt a lot.”
Rajendra Prasad Jaiswal, their father, travelled to Kathmandu on Monday night to pick up his son’s remains.
A father of three, Sonu Jaiswal worked at a liquor store in the village of Alawalpur Afga in the district of Ghazipur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which is around 430 kilometres (270 miles) from the crash site in Nepal.
Deepak claimed that his brother had travelled to Kathmandu to pray for a son at the Hindu shrine known as Pashupatinath Temple before travelling to Pokhara with three other buddies.
Deepak stated, “He was not simply my brother. In him, I have lost a buddy.”
Nepal has had a lot of air crashes over the years, in part because of the country’s difficult terrain, bad weather, and ageing fleets. Sunday’s tragedy is just the latest in a long line of terrible events.
The 53 passengers’ home country of the Himalayas was severely affected by the incident.
According to officials, the nation’s deadliest jet crash in 30 years has no possibility of producing any survivors, but investigators will keep looking for the final unaccounted-for passenger.
“There is no chance of locating a survivor.” So far, we have gathered 71 bodies. According to Tek Bahadur KC, a top district officer in Pokhara, the hunt for the remaining person will go on.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES
