Nepal has yet again, witnessed an unspeakably tragic incident involving an airplane crash of unimaginable scale. Yeti Airlines’ ATR-72 aircraft flying from Kathmandu to the tourist city of Pokhara on Sunday that crashed at the Seti river gorge, has turned out to be the worst and the biggest accident in the domestic aviation history of Nepal.
Out of the 72 onboard, 68 passengers and four crew members(by Tuesday evening) at the time of filling this story, the bodies of 71 were recovered.
The captain of the flight Kamal KC was my neighbor in Budanilkantha, Kathmandu. He was a man of calm composure and had over 20 years of flying experience. The co-pilot Anju Khatiwada coincidently, had lost her former husband, also a pilot, in another air crash incident some 15 years back.