KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A small passenger plane heading to the Mount Everest region crashed in heavy rain Tuesday outside Nepal’s capital, killing all 14 people aboard, including four Americans, a Briton and a Japanese national, officials said.The private Agni Air plane went down near Shikharpur village, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Katmandu, area police chief Ram Bahadur Shrestha said.The German-built Dornier turboprop airplane was carrying 11 passengers and three crew members. It was headed to Lukla a popular stop for trekkers and mountaineers  when cloud cover there forced it to turn back to the capital.Ram Bahadur Gole, a villager who witnessed the accident, told Avenues Television network that the crash impact broke the plane into several pieces that were scattered on a hillside.Tri Ratna Manandhar of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal confirmed there were no survivors. Manandhar said there were four Americans, one Briton and one Japanese aboard, while the remaining passengers and crew were Nepalese.Agni Air said the foreigners were tourists. It identified the Americans as Irina Shekhets, 30, Levzi Cordoso, 49, Heather Finch, 40, and Kendra Fallon, 18. The Japanese passenger was Yuki Hayashe, 19, and British, Jeremy Taylor, 30.After an initial delay in reaching the crash site because of poor weather conditions, a rescue helicopter retrieved some of the bodies to Katmandu late Tuesday. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and American and Japanese diplomats were at the airport.The bodies would be moved to a Katmandu hospital for identification, and retrieving the rest of the remains from the remote crash site would continue Wednesday, officials said.The rescue coordination office at Katmandu’s Tribhuwan International Airport said in a statement that soldiers had initially reached the crash site on foot. The area has no roads and is only accessible by foot. The route from the nearest town was blocked by a river flooded by monsoon rainfall.Lukla is the only air strip in the Everest region. Thousands of trekkers and mountaineers fly there every year to begin their journey to Everest and surrounding peaks and trekking trails. However, few travel there during the monsoon season. It is little more than a runway carved into the side of the Himalayas at an altitude of 2,800 meters (9,200 feet).The Dornier 228 twin-turboprop had its first flight in 1981. A total of 270 were built by German planemaker Dornier and India’s HAL. About 120 of those remain in service worldwide.According to the US-based Aviation Safety Network, 29 have been lost in various accidents, with a total of 122 fatalities.did orange velvet jacket and black Westerner hat.There is also a copy of Hendrix’s death certificate. He died in a London hotel on Sept. 18, 1970, aged 27. The certificate gives the archetypally rock ‘n’ roll causes as “inhalation of vomit” and barbiturate.Wyatt said some of the museum’s supporters were skeptical at first about the Hendrix display. But he is struck by the similarities between the two musicians.”They were both great improvisers,” he said  Handel on harpsichord, Hendrix on guitar.He said that on the occasional past openings of Hendrix’s apartment, the guitarist’s fans have sometimes stayed to listen and learn about Handel.”We’re hoping the exhibition will open the road the other way.””The market is very sensitive to negative economic data right now, which is expected to continue feeding into safe haven currencies,” said Michael Woolfolk, senior currency strategist at Bank of New York Mellon.The main point of interest this week will be Friday’s latest speech on the state of the U.S. economic recovery from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. His speech will come in the aftermath of the latest estimate for second quarter U.S. economic growth  a number of economists think that the 2.4 percent annualized growth previously estimated will be reduced, possibly to as little as 1.5 percent.Uncertainty about the global economy also weighed on oil prices. Benchmark crude for Oct. delivery was down 97 cents at $72.13 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sank 1.1 percent at 20,658.71, South Korea’s Kospi fell 0.4 percent to 1,760.53 and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.1 percent

• Binaj Gurubacharya