we begin in south asia where it s just gone 9.45am in nepal, and a day of national mourning has begun for the victims of the country s worst airline disaster in 30 years. all 72 people on board a yeti airlines plane are believed to have died after it crashed near the town of pokhara, about 145km or 90 miles west of the capital kathmandu. the bbc s rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from nepal. footage thought to show the final moments of yeti airlines flight 691. first, you see the plane veer off course. then you hear it. thunderous roar a raging inferno. the twin engine plane crashed into a gorge, close to the tourist town of pokhara, minutes before it was due to land at the recently opened airport there. translation: we heard a loud, thunderous crash and raised our| heads to see what had happened. we saw a lot of smoke and realised it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site. chaos and confusion, as some sprayed water to douse the flames. but efforts to save the 72 on
michael daniels is an aviation analyst and hejoins me now from singapore. thank you very much for being with us. scant information at the moment, an investigation surely under way. what will it be looking for? the surely under way. what will it be looking for? be looking for? the first part ofthe be looking for? the first part of the investigation - be looking for? the first part of the investigation process l be looking for? the first part| of the investigation process is search and rescue, and hopefully they will recover some survivors but after that, once they shut down the certain rescue phase, and they were going to the full accident investigation mode because this can tell us that there are a lot of people around who can contaminate the investigation area and others, but it s important to secure the area because you need to look for the flight recorder, the cockpit recorder and the need to start gathering the data the