The Exclusive Pictures of Nepal Plane Crash

Kathmandu : The twin-engine aircraft, operated by domestic carrier Sita Air, was carrying trekkers to the Everest region when it came down just minutes after take-off near the Manohara River on the southwest edge of the capital Kathmandu this morning. All 19 people on board died. The other Britons killed were named today by local travel company Sherpa Adventures as Raymond Eagle, 58, Christopher Davey, 51, brothers Vincent Kelly, 50, and Darren Kelly, 45, Timothy Oakes, 57, and Stephen Holding, 60, according to the Press Association. 

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said the families of the victims had all been informed. As a number of badly burned bodies lay just metres from the aircraft's shattered fuselage, witnesses described how they heard passengers 'wailing and screaming' as flames engulfed the plane as it crashed at around 6.30am (00.45 GMT) after apparently hitting an eagle.