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Pokhara Plane Crash is the Biggest Domestic Air Disaster in Nepal: CAAN

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Pokhara Plane Crash is the Biggest Domestic Air Disaster in Nepal: CAAN
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January 16: The Yeti Airlines' plane crash in Pokhara on Sunday is the biggest air disaster in the domestic sector in terms of human casualties.   

The aircraft with 72 people onboard including 68 passengers and four crew members had crashed into the Seti River gorge near Pokhara’s old airport on Sunday morning while making a final approach to land.

Although government authorities have confirmed 69 dead and three people missing, it is feared that all the 72 people on board the ill-fated aircraft have been killed.

“The aircraft accident in Pokhara is the biggest one in the domestic sector so far,” the state-owned national news agency RSS quoted Jagannath Niraula, spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), as saying.    

Hundreds of people have lost their lives in various incidences of air crash that have taken place in Nepal before this.    

But this is the first time such a large number of people have been killed in a single incident in domestic flight involving an ATR aircraft, which is considered relatively safe and reliable. The ATR aircraft is acclaimed as a safe passenger plane worldwide.

An emergency meeting of the Council of Ministers has decided to form a five-member probe committee to investigate the crash. The committee led by former secretary Nagendra Ghimire has been mandated to identify the cause of the plane crash and make recommendations to prevent such accidents from happening in the future.

The members of the committee include aviation expert and retired captain Deepak Prakash Bastola of the Nepalese Army, retired captain Sunil Thapa, and aircraft maintenance engineer Ekraj Jung Thapa. Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane, joint secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation is the member secretary of the committee.

The cabinet meeting has also decided to observe a one-day national mourning on Monday to mourn the deaths of the passengers and crew members onboard the ill-fated aircraft.

 

 

 

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