Why risks of dying in a plane crash in Nepal are very high
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- Team TOI Plus
- TIMESOFINDIA.COM Jul 26, 2024, 11:32 IST IST
Eighteen people were killed on July 24 when a small plane crashed while taking off from Kathmandu, drawing attention once again to the Himalayan nation’s poor record on air safety
Eyewitnesses of the Saurya Airlines plane crash at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, on July 24, say their first thought was that it was either a tyre burst or a vehicle accident.
“I was working here at my garage in the morning and then I heard a loud sound,” Aadesh Lama, a mechanic, told news agency ANI. “We thought a tyre burst but we came to know that a plane had crashed. It had knocked a container… if it wasn’t the container then it surely would have slid down and hit a residential area. The container saved us. It struck the container and came to the ground.”
“I was working here at my garage in the morning and then I heard a loud sound,” Aadesh Lama, a mechanic, told news agency ANI. “We thought a tyre burst but we came to know that a plane had crashed. It had knocked a container… if it wasn’t the container then it surely would have slid down and hit a residential area. The container saved us. It struck the container and came to the ground.”