68 dead, 4 survivors after Yeti Airlines flight crashes in Nepal

On Sunday, at least 68 people were killed out of 72 total passengers and crew in a plane crash that occurred when a Yeti Airlines craft crashed down in Pokhara, a city in Nepal.

Reuters reports that the event was "the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation."

The domestic Yeti Airlines flight carried 4 crew, and of its 68 passengers, 10 were foreign nationals and two were infants. The plane was flying from the capital city of Kathmandu and went down near the Pokhara International Airport. Hundreds of rescue workers were dispatched Sunday from Kathmandu to search the hills for survivors. After hours of searching, officials called off the group with plans to resume on Monday morning.

According to the New York Post, "Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal called an emergency meeting of cabinet members after the crash."

The prime minister ordered government security personnel to aid in the efforts.

Footage from the crash showed the rescue workers looking around portions of the crashed plane. Smoke and fire covered parts of the ground in other portions of footage as firefighters doused some of the blaze.

Another video showed the plane beginning to invert shortly before it crashed.

There have been no reports as to the cause and the day was clear, as seen from the video.

According to Reuters, "it was Nepal's deadliest air crash since 1992, the Aviation Safety Network database showed, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 crashed into a hillside upon approach to Kathmandu, killing all 167 people on board."

Since the year 2000 in Nepal, roughly 350 people have died from plane crashes. Mount Everest and eight more of the globe's 14 highest mountains are all in Nepal.

Since 2013, Nepali airlines have been banned from European Union airspace over safety concerns.