Why does Nepal suffer so many air crashes?Nepal has a poor record on air safety, with over 360 deaths in airplane or helicopter crashes since 2000. The country's landlocked terrain,...
26 Jul, 2024, 03.46 PM IST
Nepal Plane Crash: 18 killed, pilot survives after Saurya Airlines flight catches fire; Here's what we know so farNepal Plane Crash: On July 24, 2024, a Saurya Airlines flight crashed during takeoff at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Out o...
25 Jul, 2024, 02.13 PM IST
Black box from Nepal plane crash to be sent to Singapore for analysisIt was initially suggested the black box be taken to France where the aircraft was manufactured, but Nepalese authorities now plan to send ...
26 Jan, 2023, 12.09 PM IST
Nepal to send data recorder from crash to FranceJagannath Niraula, spokesperson for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority said the cockpit voice recorder would be analyzed locally, but that th...
17 Jan, 2023, 12.55 PM IST
Days after Nepal plane crash, Snapdeal boss shares his horrifying mid-air experience in Pokhara aircraftAfter his experience, Kunal Bahl decided to never fly to Pokhara again.
17 Jan, 2023, 12.45 PM IST
Why does Nepal's aviation industry have safety issues? An expert explainsThe aircraft was en route from Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Pokhara, the country's second largest city, situated under the picturesque Anna...
17 Jan, 2023, 11.10 AM IST
Hopes of survivors in Nepal plane crash 'nil'Nepal, which has a poor record on air safety, observed a day of mourning on Monday. Fifteen foreigners were on board the plane including fi...
16 Jan, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
Treacherous skies: mountains, lax oversight haunt Nepal air travelThe country has some of the world's most remote and trickiest runways, flanked by snow-capped peaks with approaches that pose a challenge f...
16 Jan, 2023, 07.31 PM IST
Nepal has a history of frequent airplane crashesYeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the ...
16 Jan, 2023, 01.15 PM IST
Weekly flights between Kathmandu and New Delhi increased from 2 to 6: ReportRaj Kumar Chettri, the spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, told the Kathmandu Post on Sunday that Nepal Airlines and Ai...
19 Jul, 2021, 03.48 PM IST
FAA keeps India’s aviation safety rating at category 1This was after the ICAO, a UN body, gave it a low safety score after an audit in November 2017, placing it below Nepal, Pakistan and other ...
18 Dec, 2018, 11.38 PM IST
ICAO raises concerns over security of airports, aviation infrastructure in IndiaThese concerns raised several questions on the capability of aviation regulators to manage unprecedented growth registered by the sector.
16 Dec, 2018, 11.07 PM IST
India falls below Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan in air safety auditIn the aviation safety audit conducted by ICAO late last year, India's score slipped from 66% to 57%.
25 Sep, 2018, 06.04 PM IST
Government says DGCA to regulate air traffic controllers after fall in ICAO audit scoreSenior Civil Aviation Ministry officials today said India's score after the latest ICAO audit fell to 57.44 per cent from the previous leve...
16 Jul, 2018, 10.50 PM IST
China to give Nepal $210 mn soft loan to construct airportChina will provide $210 million soft loan to Nepal to construct a regional airport in Pokhara as part of the country's efforts to develop i...
20 Jan, 2016, 05.44 PM IST
IndiGo plane catches fire at Kathmandu, no casualtiesSharma said emergency workers responded quickly to control the fire. Officials were investigating the incident.
09 Mar, 2014, 03.20 AM IST
Tourism industry in NE fears over EU's ban on Nepal airlinesThe decision of European Union to ban all airlines from Nepal from flying into the 28-nation bloc has come as a major jolt to the tourism i...
06 Dec, 2013, 04.51 PM IST