March 16: The government has decided to extend the term of 'Aircrash Probe Commission' formed to probe the crash involving a Yeti Airlines aircraft by 45 days, according to the state-owned RSS.    
A cabinet meeting held on March 14 took a decision to this effect, said Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma.    
The government had formed a five-member probe commission under the coordination of former-Secretary, Nagendra Ghimire, to find out the truth behind the Yeti airline plane crash in Pokhara on January 15.    
Initially, the commission was given 45 days to submit its report but the deadline has now been extended by another 45 days. Aviation experts—Deepak Prakash Bastola (retired major general), Sunil Thapa (retired captain) and aeronautical engineer Yekraj Jung Thapa are the members of the commission.    
Similarly, Joint-Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane is the member-secretary of the commission.

A preliminary report of the commission after studying the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) had pointed out that the aircraft did not have thrust in the engines which caused the plane to stall minutes before landing in Pokhara.

All 72 people on board the ill-fated aircraft were killed in one of the worst aviation disasters in the domestic segment in the history of Nepal.