Nepal’s Sunday airplane crash is among the many nation’s a number of aviation accidents and the listing is lengthy.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 15, 2023 15:58 IST
Rescuers examine the location of a airplane crash in Nepal’s Pokhara. (Photo: AFP)
By India Today Web Desk: All 72 passengers onboard the Nepal airplane which crashed seconds earlier than touchdown at Pokhara airport misplaced their lives on Sunday morning. The passenger airplane, ATR-72, was en route from Kathmandu to Pokhara. The airplane took off from Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am at the moment. It reportedly crashed ten seconds earlier than touchdown on the airport and everybody onboard is reported to be useless.
The plane crashed into forested land situated on the banks of the Seti Gandaki River that flows between the outdated home airport and Pokhra International Airport. Nepal airport authority officers stated the crash occurred because of a technical glitch. The pilot took permission for touchdown from Air Traffic Control (ATC) and a nod was given for a similar.
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The new airport, Nepal’s third worldwide airport, constructed with Chinese help, was inaugurated solely days in the past, on January 1, 2023.
The deadly crash provides to Nepal’s lengthy listing of aviation accidents over the past twenty years. Rugged terrain and poor laws together with an absence of infrastructure and funding have led to main accidents within the nation.
Here’s a listing of air security incidents in Nepal because the 2008 Lukla crash.
July 2022: Yeti flight YT-672 from Pokhara to Kathmandu (Nepal) with 45 folks on board, was climbing out of Pokhara when the left-hand engine (PW127) failed, prompting the crew to close the engine down and return to Pokhara for a protected touchdown about 6 minutes after departure. The airport reported the left-hand engine failed instantly after the plane grew to become airborne.
May 2022: An plane flying from Pokhara to Jomsom in Nepal with 22 folks onboard misplaced contact, airport authorities stated. It went lacking within the mountainous area of the nation. The airplane, Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine plane, took off at 9.55 am and went off the radar shortly thereafter. A helicopter was despatched to hint the airplane that ought to have landed at its vacation spot 25 minutes after taking off.
Bodies of all of the folks on board have been recovered three days later. The Nepal authorities‘s probe report concluded that the dangerous climate may need induced the incident.
July 2022: Flight YT-422 from Nepalgunj to Kathmandu (Nepal) with 66 passengers and three crew, landed on Kathmandu’s runway 02 however veered proper off the runway at about 11:06L (05:21Z). The plane got here to a cease with all gear on the comfortable floor east of taxiway D. There have been no accidents, and the plane obtained minor if any harm.
ATC introduced the airport was closed because of an plane having skidded off the runway. The airline reported a runway tour incident, all 66 passengers (64 adults 2 infants) and three crew remained unhurt.
February 2019: An Air Dynasty helicopter crashed right into a hill because it was searching for its approach again into Kathmandu in cloudy climate. Nepal’s Tourism Minister Rabindra Adhikari was among the many seven passengers who died within the incident. The preliminary report of the probe claimed that there had been violations of working procedures, reminiscent of disbalance of weights as a result of positioning of the gasoline tank and the wrong seating preparations of passengers.
March 2018: 49 folks have been killed on March 12, 2018 when a US-Bangla airline carrying 67 passengers and 4 crew members crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International airport. The flight coming back from Dhaka, caught fireplace after it careened off the runway throughout touchdown and crashed onto a soccer floor close to the airport after which exploded. A fee appointed to probe concluded that the possible explanation for the accident is perhaps the pilot’s disorientation.
February 2016: An Air Kashthamandap plane with 11 folks on board crashed in Kalikot district of Nepal. Two crew members have been killed and all 9 passengers have been injured within the incident.
May 2015: A US marine corps squadron crashed within the Charikot area of the nation killing all of the 8 occupants on board. The UH-1Y Huey, with six US marines and two Nepali troopers, went lacking throughout a mission to ship assist to victims of two earthquakes.
May 2012: Thirteen Indian pilgrims have been amongst 15 individuals killed in May 2012 when a Dornier airplane with 21 folks on board crashed right into a hilltop in northern Nepal whereas making an attempt to land at a high-altitude airport. The plane was flying from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.
September 2011: A Beechcraft 1900D operated by Buddha Air that was carrying vacationers on a sightseeing journey round Mount Everest, collided with a hill. All 19 folks on board died, together with 10 Indians. Adverse climate situations have been the reason for the accident, because the Kathmandu airport and its surrounding space have been encased in thick monsoon clouds through the crash.
October 2008: Yeti Airlines Flight 101 was a home flight in Nepal, that crashed on last method to Tenzing-Hillary Airport within the city of Lukla in japanese Nepal on October 8, 2008. The De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 registered as 9N-AFE originated from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Fourteen of the useless have been reported to be vacationers. Twelve of the passengers on the flight have been German and two Australian. The solely survivor was Surendra Kunwar, the captain of the plane, who was dragged free from the wreckage shortly after the crash and was flown to Kathmandu for emergency therapy.
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Jan 15, 2023
