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Nepal: An Indian passenger’s video captured the plane’s last moments

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  • Sonu Jaiswal live-streamed from the plane just seconds before the crash.
  • He was on the aircraft from Kathmandu to Pokhara with four friends.
  • None of the 72 persons on board are believed to have survived the disaster.
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Nepal: In the hours following Nepal’s deadliest plane disaster in 30 years, a video went viral in India, showing one of the victims, Sonu Jaiswal, live streaming from the plane just seconds before the crash.

He was on the aircraft from Kathmandu to Pokhara with four friends from Ghazipur, India, who were visiting Nepal.

The footage shows the surroundings of Pokhara airport as the tragic plane approaches land, with everyone on board unaware they are only seconds away from tragedy.

None of the 72 persons on board are believed to have survived the disaster.

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The following details could be distressing to some readers

The video shows the plane softly soaring above the honeycombs of buildings that dot the brown-green fields before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.

He then flips it over to show other passengers on the plane.

After a few moments, there is a loud crash.

As the camera continues to capture, massive flames and smoke cover the screen in seconds. Before the video finishes, there is what sounds like an engine screeching, broken glass and screams.

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Sonu Jaiswal’s friends and family told reporters that they had watched the video on his Facebook account, confirming its authenticity.

“Sonu did the [livestream] when the jet crashed in a valley near the Seti River,” Jaiswal’s friend Mukesh Kashyap told reporters.

It is unclear how Jaiswal connected to the internet in order to stream from the plane.

Abhishek Pratap Shah, a former Nepalese politician, informed an Indian news channel that rescuers had recovered the phone from the plane’s wreckage.

“It was sent to me by one of my friends, who got it from a police officer. It’s a true record, “Mr Shah stated

Nepalese officials have yet to validate his allegation or comment on the footage, which could aid crash investigators in their investigation.

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But none of this mattered to the families of the four men – Jaiswal, Abhishek Kushwaha, Anil Rajbhar, and Vishal Sharma. They are “too devastated” to care, they claim.

“The pain is difficult to describe,” said Abhishek Kushwaha’s brother, Chandrabhan Maurya.

“The government must assist us as much as possible. We demand that our loved ones’ bodies be returned to us.

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