Nepal Airlines Plane Crashes Killing All 18 On Board · Global Voices
A De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter of Nepal Airlines, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident. Image from Wikimedia Commons by <PERSON>. CC BY-SA 3.0
An ill-fated Twin Otter plane crashed on 16 February 2014 killing all 18 on board in the forests of Masine in mid-western Nepal.
The wreckage of the state-owned Nepal Airlines Corporation plane, which went missing after 1 p.m. Nepal Standard Time (NST) on Sunday, was found on Monday morning by local youths who had been there to play with the snow, reports Nepali online newspaper Setopati. The aircraft may have hit a mountain, which caused the crash.
#NAC‘s 9N-ABB #planecrash site. 2 KM west of SupaDeurali temple of #Arghakhanchidisrtict, mid-west #Nepal.pic.twitter.com/uOGSbL6DPf
— PHALANO™ (@phalano) February 17, 2014
<PERSON>, a medical doctor from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), tweeted:
दुखदखवर।जेनहुनुथ्योत्यहीसुनियोयतात….. 206
नेवानिकोबिमानमारहेकासबै१८ यात्रुकोमृत्युरे….. #planecrash#nepal
— MedicO (@SapphireG29) February 16, 2014
Sad news. What not had to happen, got to know the same. All 18 aboard the Nepal Airlines Corporation plane died.
Journalist <PERSON> tweeted an earlier picture of the plane:
२०६७कोवैशाख११गतेकादिनयोजहाजलेजुम्लाबिमानस्थालमानेपालगञ्जलैजानुपर्नेबिरामीओसार्नखोज्दैथियो। :( pic.twitter.com/dfBLLSjHOy
— Bhabasagar (@Bhabasagar) February 17, 2014
On 24 April 2010 the plane was to ferry a patient to Nepalgunj from Jumla airport.
The plane was 43 years old and was carrying 15 passengers and 3 crew members, blog Mysansar reported. Among them were a Danish national and a child. The aeroplane was scheduled to be decommissioned in 2014.
<PERSON> from Germany tweeted:
Sad to learn about yet another #planecrash in #Nepal. 43yrs old aircraft of NAC -sums up the story but blame will be on bad weather & pilot
— RajanBhattarai(@RBstrikes21) February 16, 2014
The weather throughout the country was very bad on the day the plane crashed:
यस्तोमौसमभएकोबेलाजहाजचलाउनदिनेलाईतसिधैजेलकोच्नुपर्ने :( #RIP#planecrash#nepal
— <PERSON> (@LeoPrabin) February 16, 2014
The ones who permitted to fly the plane in such weather should be jailed.
Although being old, the plane had had only one incident of slipping on the runway of Jumla airport on 25 June 1992. 182