Fifty people have got feared killed as Bangladeshi plane with 67 passengers on board crashed while landing in Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in capital city Kathmandu of Nepal on Monday.
In the the plane it has been said that there were 67 passengers and 4 crew members.
Police and army team are working to rescue the injured ones. About 20 injured passengers have been admitted to the hospital.
“Resuers are trying to bring the fire under control” airport spokesman Birendra Prasad Shrestha said. He also informed that the airport has been shut down now and all other flights heading to Kathmandu are diverted.
According to Sanjeev Gautam, the director general of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, the aircraft was permitted to land from the southern side of the runway’s flying over but the pilot forcefully landed from the northern side. “We are yet to find out the reasons behind this unusal landing,” Gautam added.
Tiny himalayan nation Nepal is notorious for this type of air accidents. High hills and mountains, poor visibility, less experienced pilots, less knowledge about Nepal’s geography to foreign crew members and insuffient equipments for regulation and management of air traffic have been listed out as major causes of frequent air accidents in sky of Nepal. Blame is also that staffs responsible for management of air traffic are not independent and are working under the infulence of foreign powers.
For more than one decade the competition is going in between foreign powers to install RADAR and other vital aviation equipments in various Nepal airports.
As of today a similar air accident had taken palce in 1992 while a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok crashed while trying to land in Kathmandu .
The crashed US-Bangla Airlines is a unit of the US-Bangla Group which is a US- Bangladeshi joint venture company.
