Former Director General of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Raj Kumar Chhetri mentioned the age of the aircraft shouldn’t be the issue for its accident.
Former Director General of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Raj Kumar Chhetri mentioned the age of the aircraft shouldn’t be the issue for its accident.
Bad climate was the explanation behind the crash of the Tara Air aircraft in Nepal’s mountainous Mustang district on May 29 with 22 folks on board, together with 4 Indians, in accordance with a preliminary investigation carried out by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN).
The Canadian-built turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET aircraft went lacking on Sunday morning within the mountainous area of Nepal minutes after taking off from the vacationer metropolis of Pokhara. The aircraft, which carried out its first flight 42 years and two months in the past on April 21, 1979, was carrying 4 Indians, two Germans and 13 Nepali passengers, apart from a three-member Nepali crew.
The authorities has fashioned a five-member fee of inquiry headed by senior aeronautical engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman to search out out the reason for the Tara Air aircraft crash, officers mentioned.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the plane had crashed into the mountains after it swerved to the proper, as a substitute of turning to the left resulting from inclement climate, CAAN Director-General Pradeep Adhikari mentioned throughout a gathering of the International Committee of Parliament on May 30.
The wreckage of the airplane was discovered on Monday morning on the Sanusare cliff at Thasang rural municipality-2 of Mustang district. The crash web site is located at a distance of eight nautical miles from the Jomsom Airport. Rescuers have to date pulled out 20 our bodies from the wreckage of the crashed aircraft.
The aircraft was first bought by Air Botswana in 1979. The aircraft later entered Nepal in 1998 underneath its new operator Lumbini Airways however was procured by Yeti Airlines in 1999. The aircraft had been operated by Tara Air since April 2010, My Republica information web site reported.
Adverse climate influence is prone to be the first explanation for the accident, specialists say. Former Director General of CAAN Raj Kumar Chhetri mentioned that the age of the aircraft shouldn’t be the issue for its accident. “The adverse weather on Sunday could be the reason behind the accident,” he opined. However, the explanation behind the disastrous accident might be recognized as soon as the investigation is over, he mentioned.
“Our topography is mostly high hills and mountains, along with continuous changing wind and weather patterns causing difficulties for planes to maneuver around high terrains and in low visibility,” Mr. Chhetri instructed Republica.
Source: www.thehindu.com
