Nepal aircraft crash: Co-pilot was seconds away from changing into pilot — Know Anju’s story

Anju misplaced her partner 16 years in the past to a aircraft crash and her husband was a co-pilot, coincidentally, for Yeti Airlines itself.

New Delhi ,UPDATED: Jan 15, 2023 20:03 IST

Co-pilot Anju Khatiwada was slated to develop into a captain after finishing 100 hours of flying.

By Sujeet Jha: The co-pilot aboard the fateful Yeti Airlines – ATR-72, carrying 72 folks, which crashed in Nepal’s Pokhara, Anju Khatiwada, was seconds away from reaching her aim of changing into a captain. She misplaced her life and her desires moments earlier than realising them whereas hanging a stark similarity together with her late husband, Deepak Pokhrel’s future.

The aircraft was piloted by senior Capitan Kamal KC and Anju was the co-pilot on the plane. The plane crashed into forested land positioned on the banks of the Seti River that flows between the previous home airport and Pokhra International Airport on Sunday. The passenger aircraft was carrying 72 folks onboard and it was a 27-minute flight.

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Everyone onboard, together with 5 Indians, is reportedly useless. Nepal’s Yeti Airlines has confirmed there have been 68 passengers, together with 5 Indians on the plane.

Anju misplaced her partner 16 years in the past to a aircraft crash on June 21, 2006. Her husband was a co-pilot too and, coincidentally, for Yeti Airlines itself. 16 years in the past, Yeti Airlines 9N AEQ plane on its solution to Jumla from Nepalganj by way of Surkhet crashed whereby six passengers and 4 crew members had been killed. One of the folks killed was Anju’s husband.

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This was slated to be the final flight of the crashed aircraft’s co-pilot, Anju Khativada, as a pilot. She was resulting from develop into the captain after her profitable touchdown, scheduled for Sunday.

With the purpose of concluding her hours within the air and changing into a captain, Anju had taken the flight with the senior pilot and her teacher, Kamal KC. To develop into a pilot, one wants at the very least 100 hours of flying expertise. Co-pilot Anju had efficiently landed in nearly all of the airports of Nepal earlier.

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Captain Kamal KC made him sit on the seat of the chief pilot whereas flying to Pokhara earlier at present. Today, after a profitable touchdown, Anju was about to get a chief pilot’s license. However, merely 10 seconds away from her aim, her desires got here crashing down and went up in smoke.

On the opposite hand, the captain onboard the fateful plane had 35 years of piloting expertise. Kamal KC had educated many pilots up to now and the pilots educated by him are often called profitable pilots at present.

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Jan 15, 2023