Nepal Plane Crash: 18 Killed in Kathmandu Airport Takeoff Accident
Planes Crash In Nepal A Saurya Airlines plane crash-landed during takeoff at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on July 24, apparently when the pilots were unable to retract gear. Tragically 18 people died, but astonishingly the pilot survived. Unconfirmed reports say the crash occurred due to an onboard fire.
The injured pilot, the only one to survive the accident, has been taken to Kathmandu Medical College Hospital. A doctor said the pilot had eye injuries but was not serious.
The officials said the plane was flying to Nepal’s new Pokhara airport for a regular maintenance check. According to a Reuters report, the maintenance hangar-heavy field opened just last January.
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Nepal Plane Crash: Ten Updates
-A senior official at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said: “Saurya Airlines Plane took off from Kathmandu at 11.11 a.m. from Pokhara and lost contact soon after takeoff.”
-According to the statement, The plane had taken off and turned right before crashing near a residential area east of the International Airport.
-According to the Kathmandu Post, during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal’s capital on Monday – one of the plane’s wings tipped onto the ground just before a crash.
-Ullah said the crew and 16 passengers were all Nepali nationals except for two foreigners whose nationalities have not been revealed.
-The bodies have been sent to TU Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu for post-mortem.
-Tribhuvan International Airport – the main hub for international and domestic flights in Nepal – was subsequently shut down by authorities as emergency crews attended to the ailing on board and officials launched an investigation into why it came tumbling out of control. It was reopened afterward.
-It is currently monsoon season in Kathmandu, but there was no rain when the crash occurred. But visibility remained low across the capital.
-Wednesday’s mishap involved a twin-engine Mitsubishi CRJ-200 that seats 50 passengers.
-It was the worst crash in Nepal since 68 passengers and four crew of a Yeti Airlines airplane were killed on January 9 last year when it went missing near Lukla airport.
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Nepal Plane Crashes
Most people only visit Kathmandu or the airport nearby, but Nepal is surrounded in 3-D by over eight of some of the tallest mountains on this planet. This makes it a difficult airport for pilots, especially since the largest aircraft that land there need to thread between passes in the mountains. The airport closest to the city is situated in a residential district.
At Tribhuvan Airport, a Bangladeshi airliner crashed in 2019 killing all passengers on board except for the 20 that survived. The probe concluded the plane was incorrectly lined up with the runway. Feeling disoriented, the pilot tried to land in a state of “sheer desperation” at some point prior to the crash.
A Turkish Airlines jet landing in dense fog skidded off a slippery runway at the same airport in 2015. The skies were full of 238 passengers, but police say the people who fell last Tuesday, no one were seriously injured.
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