A private airlines' Pokhara-bound plane crashed during takeoff at the <keyword id="22528018" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tribhuvan-International-Airport" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Tribhuvan International Airport" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Tribhuvan International Airport">Tribhuvan International Airport</keyword> (TIA) in Katmandu, killing 18 of the 19 people on board. The pilot of the <keyword id="22528017" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Saurya-Airlines" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Saurya Airlines" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Saurya Airlines">Saurya Airlines</keyword> plane survived the crash and was taken to hospital, officials said. The crash took place when the aircraft veered off the runway and burst into flames. Footage from the spot showed dramatic scenes of the plane speeding down the runway before a fire broke out with high flames and thick black smoke billowing from the wreckage. At least 19 people, including aircrew, were aboard the private Saurya Airlines plane which met with the accident at around 11 am, sources said. The <keyword id="22384937" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="kathmandu-post" source="keywords">Kathmandu Post</keyword> newspaper reported that 18 bodies have been recovered from the crash site. <div type="twitter" handle="ANI" handlename="ANI" favoritecount="0" retweetcount="0" id="1816004873441210431"></div> "The accident occurred after the Pokhara-bound flight suffered a runway excursion during takeoff," said TIA Spokesperson Subash Jha. The Himalayan Times newspaper reported that the plane was only carrying technical staff of the airline."There were no passengers on board but the plane was carrying few technical staff," Gyanendra Bhul, information officer at the TIA, said. The pilot of the aircraft has been taken to a hospital, a security official deployed at the airport told PTI without giving further details. A fire that broke out from the aircraft has been put off, he added. Police and firefighters are carrying out <keyword id="20501159" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="rescue-operations" source="keywords">rescue operations</keyword> at the accident site. Authorities have shut down the TIA following the <keyword id="19992034" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="plane-crash" source="keywords">plane crash</keyword>, the MyRepublica news portal reported. Dozens of international and domestic flights have been affected due to the airport closure.

18 killed as plane crashes during takeoff at Nepal's Kathmandu airport

The Nepal governments decision to resume domestic and <keyword id="131277" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="international-flights">international flights</keyword> from August 17 has prompted airline companies to start submitting their proposals seeking permission to resume operations, it was reported. According to <keyword id="9696055" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="raj-kumar-chhetri">Raj Kumar Chhetri</keyword>, spokesperson for <keyword id="783670" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Civil-Aviation-Authority-of-Nepal">Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal</keyword> (CAAN), a total of 12 airline companies, including two from Nepal, have submitted proposals for slots, reports The Himalayan Times. "Generally, airline companies have to resubmit their proposal for slots if flight operations are halted for more than 60 days," he said on Monday. "Hence, <keyword id="757114" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="international-companies">international companies</keyword> are applying to get their slots to resume flight operations from and to Nepal." Chhetri added that besides Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) and Himalaya Airlines, Indigo, Air India; Air China and <keyword id="152098" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="China-Southern">China Southern</keyword> of China; SalamAir of Oman; <keyword id="361901" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jazeera-Airways">Jazeera Airways</keyword> of Kuwait; Fly Dubai and Air Arabia of the United Arab Emirates; Malaysia Air and Malindo Air of Malaysia; and Turkish Airlines have so far submitted their applications to CAAN, seeking slots. "However, we are still working on the nitty gritty of providing permission for flight operations," Chhetri said, adding: "Destinations that are less affected by COVID-19 will be higher on our priority list while permitting flight operations." Before the pandemic struck, around 100 international flights were being conducted daily via Tribhuvan International Airport. The suspension of the flights came on March 22 to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the country. During the months, only chartered flights for humanitarian purpose or delivery of medical goods were allowed. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/corporates/news/dgca-asks-spicejet-to-stop-ticket-sale-offer-as-govt-imposed-fare-limits-are-in-place/articleshow/77333769.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">DGCA asks SpiceJet to stop ticket sale offer as govt-imposed fare limits are in place</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/checkout-covid-19-quarantine-guidelines-for-international-passengers-arriving-in-india-from-august-8/articleshow/77342418.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Here’s a checklist for international passengers arriving in India from August 8</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/air-india-pilots-allege-blatant-discrimination-by-management/articleshow/77334027.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Air India pilots allege blatant discrimination by management</a>

Airlines seek permission from Nepal government to resume flights

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5aa65fb73be59f1d008b4730-1439/kathmandu%20plane%20crash.jpg" alt="kathmandu plane crash" data-mce-source="Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters" data-mce-caption="Wreckage of an airplane is pictured as rescue workers operate at Kathmandu airport, Nepal March 12, 2018. REUTERS/ Navesh Chitrakar">Navesh Chitrakar/ReutersWreckage of an airplane is pictured as rescue workers operate at Kathmandu airport, Nepal, on Monday.</img></div></div></div>At least 38 people have died after a commercial plane crashed over a football pitch in Nepal on Monday.The plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, veered off the runway while landing at the&#xa0;Tribhuvan International Airport in the capital city shortly after 2 p.m. local time (NPT).The twin-propeller Bombardier Dash 8&#xa0;swerved repeatedly before it crashed, the AP said. It then landed into an empty field and burst into flames, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/world/asia/kathmandu-plane-crash.html">The New York Times said</a>.It had been carrying 67 people and four crew members from Dhaka, Bangladesh.The death toll was reported by the Associated Press, who cited a police official. Twenty-three people are injured, and the others are yet to be accounted for.Social media footage showed a plume of black smoke arising from the wreckage, and dozens of firefighters and emergency personnel attending the scene.More follows.<div><blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en">Video shows firefighters at the site of a plane crash at Kathmandu airport in Nepal as the rescue operation continues. There were 67 passengers onboard, with 17 rescued so far. <a href="https://t.co/AUQEPjGPqw">https://t.co/AUQEPjGPqw</a> <a href="https://t.co/lbfX2bhn98">pic.twitter.com/lbfX2bhn98</a>- ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/973141438862188545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2018</a></blockquote><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-3-best-worst-features-elon-musk-2018-2">The best and worst things about the Tesla Model 3</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/RlbR9Z8r-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

At least 38 dead after a plane crash-landed and burst into flames at an airport in Nepal

The content head of <keyword id="19923295" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="OTT" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="OTT" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="OTT">OTT</keyword> platform <keyword id="19897536" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Netflix" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Netflix" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Netflix">Netflix</keyword> has been summoned on September 3 by the <keyword id="19967269" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ministry-of-Information-and-Broadcasting" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Ministry of Information and Broadcasting" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Ministry of Information and Broadcasting">Ministry of Information and Broadcasting</keyword> over the series 'IC-814 - The Kandahar <keyword id="20102314" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="hijack" source="keywords">Hijack</keyword>' which has triggered a row on social media over the depiction of the hijackers. In the OTT series, the five hijackers of the flight from Kathmandu are referred to as Chief, Doctor, Burger, Bhola and Shankar. "I vividly remember IC-814. I was very aware of that accident and very involved in following that. Every man and woman in India and indeed in South Asia knows that the hijack of IC-814 from Kathmandu was committed by Pakistan's ISI-backed terrorists. Now, nobody thinks that there were some people from India who did the hijacking. So how the people have Hindu names in that movie, I don't know. But I'm very happy that the I&amp;B Ministry and the GoI have taken cognizance of this and have summoned Netflix" BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. The Hijack drama created by <keyword id="19913032" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anubhav-Sinha" source="keywords">Anubhav Sinha</keyword> and Trishant Shrivastava stars actors Naseeruddin Shah, Pankaj Kapur, Vijay Varma, Arvind Swamy, Patralekhaa and Dia Mirza. The six-episode series is based on real events. On December 24, 1999 flight <keyword id="20777484" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="IC-814" source="keywords">IC 814</keyword> an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 enroute to Delhi gets hijacked after take off from the Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal shortly after it entered Indian airspace. Soon after take-off, five hijackers, who were posing as passengers, took control of the plane. The hostage crisis lasted for seven days and ended after the then <keyword id="23009406" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Prime-Minister-Atal-Bihari-Vajpayee" source="keywords">Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee</keyword> government agreed to release three militants. There were 191 passengers on board including 15 crew members, where one person was stabbed, who succumbed to his injuries, while several others were wounded. BJP's IT cell chief Amit Malviya had posted on X, "The hijackers of IC-814 were dreaded terrorists, who acquired aliases to hide their Muslim identities. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, legitimised their criminal intent, by furthering their non-Muslim names. Result? Decades later, people will think Hindus hijacked IC-814." Malviya further posted, "This will not just weaken / put in question India's security apparatus in the long run, but also shift the blame away from the religious cohort, that is responsible for all the bloodshed." In a suo motu statement by then External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh in Parliament stated that the hijacked IC-814 aircraft made several landings at Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai before being taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan. The government, then led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, was forced to release three terrorists -- <keyword id="6459729" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Masood-Azhar" source="Orion">Masood Azhar</keyword>, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar -- from Indian prisons to secure the release of the hostages. Later, Masood Azhar went on to form Jaish-E-Mohammad, which claimed responsibility for Pulwama attack in India in 2019, 2001 Parliament attacks and 2016 Uri attacks, amongst others. Currently in Pakistan, Azhar remains active, and was seen attending a wedding in Bahawalpur city of Pakistan's Punjab last month, per media reports. As per a January 6, 200 statement by the Union Home Ministry the names of the hijackers were identified as Ibrahim Athar, Bahawalpur; Shahid Akhtar Sayed, Karachi; Sunny Ahmed Qazi, Karachi; Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim, Karachi and Shakir from Sukkur city "To the passengers of the hijacked place these hijackers came to be known respectively as (1) Chief, (2) Doctor, (3) Burger, (4) Bhola and (5) Shankar, the names by which the hijackers invariably addressed one another," the statement read.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>18 people have died after a small passenger plane crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu, Nepal.</li><li>Nepal has a poor aviation safety record and all of its airlines are banned from European airspace.</li></ul>18 people have died after a small passenger airplane crashed during takeoff in Nepal's capital city, Kathmandu.The plane's captain is the only remaining survivor of the 19 onboard, including two crew members and 17 technicians of the airline, who were traveling to Pokhara, reportedly for aircraft maintenance.The Saurya Airlines flight skidded off the runway at approximately 11.15 a.m. local time, <a target="_blank" href="https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-3/2024/07/24/caan-confirms-18-aboard-saurya-airlines-dead-one-rescued">according to The Kathmandu Post</a>.All 18 bodies have been recovered from the crash site at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal. The pilot, Captain Manish Ratna Shkya, was rescued and is being treated for injuries at Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital.Videos and photos posted online showed billows of black smoke emerging from the wreckage of the plane, then on fire but since put out by firefighters.The search and rescue coordination of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said in a recently released statement that the plane "veered off to the right and crashed on the east side of the runway.""Rescue operations were initiated immediately," it said. "The fire was brought under control," the statement added.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nepal-has-so-many-fatal-plane-crashes-2023-1">Nepal has a poor aviation safety record</a> and is often regarded as one of the most dangerous countries for air travel. All Nepali air carriers are banned from entering the airspace of any European Union country, <a target="_blank" href="https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/3195fabb-7575-4db9-85b9-ec5a77b481aa_en?filename=air-safety-list-2024-05-30_en.pdf">per the EU Air Safety List</a>.The European Union Aviation Safety Agency bans airlines from operating in the EU for "failure to adhere to the applicable international safety standards."Professor Ron Bartch, chairman and founding director of aviation consultancy firm AvLaw, told Business Insider that one reason for its poor safety record is that the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal is "not a terribly well-resourced safety regulator."The CAAN did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.Nepal's mountainous terrain, unpredictable weather, and remote runways have contributed to the country's reputation as one of the most difficult places to fly.Kathmandu's high altitude makes for a "challenging operating environment," Bartch added, noting that this means a greater distance and an accelerated approach speed are required for takeoff and landing as the air is less dense than at sea level.He also said Nepal's monsoonal conditions affect the country's aviation safety.The deadliest plane crash in Nepal in three decades occurred in January 2023, when at least <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/folk-singer-hotelier-travel-blogger-among-victims-nepal-plane-crash-2023-1">72 people were killed</a> after a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/video-nepal-plane-was-spinning-sharply-before-crash-40-reported-killed-2023-1">Yeti Airlines flight went down near Pokhara</a>, which government investigators later attributed to the aircraft's pilots accidentally cutting off the power.In 1992, all 167 passengers on board a Pakistan International Airlines flight to Kathmandu died when the Airbus crashed on approach to the airport.Since 2000, more than 350 people have died in Nepal in 19 air crashes.

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