On March 12, 2018 (January 25, 2018 in the lunar calendar), a Bangladeshi passenger plane carrying 67 people crashed in Nepal. The BBC reported on March 12, 2018 that a crash occurred at Kathmandu Airport in Nepal, and smoke could be seen billowing from the scene. Casualties are temporarily unknown. Nepal officials said the passenger plane crashed "due to instability" while landing. According to the BBC, official sources said there were 67 passengers on board and many people were injured. The BBC quoted the Kathmandu Post as saying that the plane belonged to Bangladesh Airlines and crashed on the east side of the runway at Tribhuvan International Airport. An airport spokesman said there were possible casualties. The Kathmandu Post stated that the aircraft code name S2-AGU was painted on the fuselage. The plane took off from Dhaka and landed at 2:20 pm local time. After landing, it burst into flames and crashed into a football field near Tribhuvan International Airport. The airport suspected that the aircraft had technical problems. Reported that the aircraft is a Bombardier Dash8-Q400. Data shows that the Dash8-Q400 belonging to Bangladesh's "American-Bangladesh Airlines" is a twin-engine turboprop regional passenger aircraft produced by Bombardier, Canada. It has a length of 32.8 meters, a height of 8.3 meters, and a wingspan of 28.4 meters. It uses two Pratt & Whitney's PW150A turboprop engine has a standard passenger capacity of 78 passengers, a cruising speed of 667 kilometers per hour, a maximum cruising altitude of 8230 meters, and a cruising range of 2522 kilometers.