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- Published: January 16, 2023 11:10
New Delhi: Anju Khatiwada, the co-pilot of Yeti Airlines – ATR-72 who was seconds away from becoming pilot lost her life in the Sunday plane crash in Nepal.
Yeti Airlines – ATR-72 crashed between the city’s old and new airports in western Nepal killing 68 passengers and four crew members.
#WATCH | Visual from Nepal’s Pokhara International Airport where a passenger aircraft crashed earlier today. pic.twitter.com/C8XHL9f7Lu
— ANI (@ANI) January 15, 2023
The black box of the crashed airlines have been recovered from the site.
Nepal aircraft crash | The black box of the crashed plane found: Sher Bath Thakur, airport official Kathmandu to ANI
Visuals of the search and rescue operation at Pokhara. pic.twitter.com/Qqhz68Glym
— ANI (@ANI) January 16, 2023
Who was Anju Khatiwada, co-pilot of Yeti Airlines – ATR-72?
According to reports, the Yeti Airlines – ATR-72 that crashed on Sunday was scheduled to be the last flight of the plane’s co-pilot, Anju Khativada, as a pilot.
Anju Khativada was set to become the captain after her successful landing which was scheduled for Sunday.
To become a captain one must have 100 hours of flying experience, and Co-pilot Anju had made successful landings in almost all the airports of Nepal earlier.
After Sunday’s successful landing, the co-pilot was set to receive a chief pilot’s license. But, 10 seconds before the landing Anju’s dreams of becoming a came crashed in a fatal accident.
She was being guided by Captain Kamal KC who had made her sit on the seat of the chief pilot while flying to Pokhara on Sunday.
Senior pilot Kamal KC who was killed in the plane crash had almost 35 years of flying experience and he had also trained many co-pilots who are now pilots now.
Yeti Airlines 9N AEQ aircraft that crashed 16 years ago killing Anju Khatiwada’s husband
Coincidentally, 16 years ago, Anju lost her husband in a plane crash on June 21, 2006. He was also a co-pilot for Yeti Airlines itself.
In a similar incident, sixteen years ago, Yeti Airlines 9N AEQ aircraft, which was on its way to Jumla from Nepalganj via Surkhet, crashed where six passengers and four crew members were killed out of which one of the victims was Anju’s husband.