KATHMANDU, Nepal — A plane slipped off a runway and crashed during takeoff here on Wednesday morning, killing everyone on board except the pilot, according to Nepali police.

       Rescue teams recovered 18 bodies after the Saurya Airlines passenger plane crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, Dan Bahadur Karki, deputy inspector general of the Nepal Police, told The Washington Post. Seventeen of the passengers were Nepalis — including one child — while one passenger was Yemeni, the airport’s rescue coordination center said in a news release.