WORLD IN BRIEF : NEPAL : Wreckage of Downed Thai Plane Spotted
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The wreckage of a Thai Airways Airbus that vanished Friday with 113 people on board has been spotted in a remote mountainous area northwest of Katmandu, officials said, and all are feared dead. Rescue officials heading for the site said the wreckage was seen near the glacier lake of Gosainkund, northwest of the capital. Also, the death toll from a crash of a Chinese domestic flight as it tried to take off from east China’s Nanjing airport climbed to 109. A 10-month-old infant was reported among the 17 survivors.
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