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While taking off from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, a plane crashed and caught fire, killing eighteen people. Captain Manish Ratna Shakya survived the incident.
The pilot, who was pulled from the flaming wreckage on Wednesday and he is the only survivor of the tragic accident and is presently undergoing treatment in a hospital.
Two crew members and seventeen corporate personnel, including technical staff, were on board the Saurya Airlines test flight. It was headed west, to Pokhara, the popular tourist destination in the Himalayas.
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The aviation sector in Nepal has a poor safety record, which has been ascribed to a number of things over the years, including erratic weather patterns and loose laws.
As part of a routine maintenance check, the aircraft was headed for Pokhara when it crashed a few minutes after take-off from Tribhuvan International Airport. The crash occurred at approximately 11:15 local time (05:30 GMT), according to a statement from the search and rescue coordination centre of the Nepal Civil Aviation Authority.
The pilot got lacerations on his forehead and eyes, according to police spokeswoman Dan Bahadur Karki, but his life was not in jeopardy.
“There was a very loud noise, it sounded like maybe a truck had overturned on the road. The plane then hit the ground and caught fire. We were about to run to the site but then there was an explosion so we ran away again,” a man present in a shop near the crash told the news agency.
He is Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, who was rescued alive from the Saurya Airlines plane crash site this morning. He is the only person alive out of the 19 people on board.
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According to Saurya Airlines’ website, Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, who pilots the CRJ200 regional aircraft has survived the crash. He serves as the airline’s chief of operations. He worked for Simrik Airlines for over three years before joining Saurya Airlines, according to his LinkedIn profile. His time at St. Xavier’s School is now over.
According to the police, Captain Shakya, 37, was pulled from the wreckage and brought to KMC Hospital in Sinamangal for medical attention. With the verified deaths of eighteen of the nineteen passengers on board, he is the only survivor of the disaster.
Other related incidents
Previous to this incident, on May 29, 2022, a Tara aircraft carrying 22 passengers including four Indians from Thane crashed in Nepal’s rugged Mustang province, killing every person on board. It appears that the primary cause of aviation crashes in Nepal is bad weather. The weather in this hilly region fluctuates frequently, making it challenging to conduct flights without an accurate weather forecasting system.