17 Jan 2023

NZ Nepalese community mourns deadly plane crash

From Morning Report, 8:26 am on 17 January 2023

The local Nepalese community remains in mourning for the victims of the country's worst air disaster in three decades.

At least 68 people died in the weekend when a flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing.

A panel has been established in the South Asian nation to look at the cause of the disaster.

Deepak Gautam, a member of New Zealand's six-thousand-strong Nepalese community, spoke to Jimmy Ellingham.