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ICAO finds Nepal’s Air Safety Standard Satisfactory: CAAN

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ICAO finds Nepal’s Air Safety Standard Satisfactory: CAAN
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July 14: The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has found noteworthy progress in Nepal’s attempt to meet the international aviation security standard. According to officials at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), a team of ICAO has found Nepal’s air safety standard satisfactory after conducting an audit to evaluate the progress achieved by Nepali airlines.

With the positive feedback from the two-member ICAO team, CAAN officials are hopeful that the European Commission (EC) will remove Nepal from its blacklist soon. The EC has banned 18 Nepali airlines from flying in the European airspace since the last four years citing air safety concerns.

CAAN Deputy General Manager Rajan Pokharel informed that a captain and an aeronautical engineer from the ICAO recently returned back after completing a four-day audit. The team was in Nepal to study the ban imposed by the EU on Nepali airlines. However, the final report is yet to come.  

Nepali airlines have not been able to conduct flights to the EU destinations because of the ban imposed by the European Commission on December 5, 2013.

The Nepali airlines that fall in the blacklist are Nepal Airlines Corporation, Buddha Air, Yeti Airlines, Fishtail Air, Goma Air, Himalayan Airlines, Air Dynasty, Air Kasthamandap, Makalu Air, Manang Air, Mountain Helicopters, Muktinath Air, Saurya Airlines, Shree Airlines, Simrik Air, Sita Air and Tara Air.

Besides Nepal, the European Union has also banned airlines of Afghanistan, Congo, Angola, Indonesia, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Iran and Iraq.

During the recent visit, ICAO studied four aspects including legal, organizational, operational and air worthiness and found all the aspects satisfactory, according to CAAN Deputy Managing Director and Spokesperson Birendra Prasad Shrestha. The team will submit the report to ICAO headquarters first and then only the ICAO will inform about the report to the CAAN, said Shrestha. 

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