The government has formed a five-member probe committee to investigate Yeti Airlines plane crash. An emergency Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar on Sunday following the plane crash made the decision to this effect. Emerging from the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel said that the five-member probe committee has been formed to investigate the incident.

The reason behind the incident, however, is not immediately known.

A Yeti Airlines plane carrying 68 passengers crashed in Pokhara on Sunday. The plane with call sign ATR-72 took off from Kathmandu to Pokhara at 10: 33 am today, police said. According to Sudarshan Bartaula, spokesperson of the Yeti Airlines, there were two pilots, two air hostesses and 68 passengers on board the ill-fated aircraft that crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport this morning.