KATHMANDU: Grieving relatives waited at the main airport in both Nepal and Bhutan Thursday after Nepal’s aviation authorities confirmed that a Twin Otter flying with 19 pilgrims a day earlier had crashed in a forest in eastern Nepal, killing all on board, including the three crew members as well.
While the crew were from Nepal, 18 of the pilgrims, the majority of them women, are suspected to be Bhutanese who passed themselves off as Nepalis in order to avail of the cheaper fares available to locals on Nepal’s domestic flights. As Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley expressed shock and grief at the crash in Gouri forest in eastern Nepal’s Okhaldhunga district, the cabinet secretary and nine officials were sent to Kathmandu to facilitate the task of bringing the bodies back to Bhutan. A special flight has been organised Friday for that.
Read more: 18 Bhutanese among 22 killed in Nepal air crash – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/18-Bhutanese-among-22-killed-in-Nepal-air-crash/articleshow/7111283.cms#ixzz18HKOArzB
By: Arabella-Cox - 18th December 2010 at 11:55
RIP and condolences 🙁
By: MSR777 - 17th December 2010 at 08:44
Very sad news. There was an item on a TV programme on C5 recently which documented the Twin Otter ops in Nepal and some of the accidents that had happened there.
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December 16, 2010 at 12:50 pm