Mountainous Nepal's sad history of air crashesIn Nepal, several airlines fly to small airports in remote hills and mountains shrouded in clouds and cut off from roads.
Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous NepalSix people were killed in a helicopter crash in central Nepal. The chopper, which departed from Solukhunvhu district, home to Mount Everest...
No stranger to tragedies: A timeline of air crashes in NepalNepal's air transport sector has been plagued by accidents due to poor maintenance, insufficient training and lax standards. On Sunday, at ...
Yeti Airlines started flying more than 2 decades ago; operates only ATR planesThe airline, which connects different destinations in Nepal, operates only ATR 72-500s. Each 70-seater aircraft is a twin-engine turboprop ...
Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous NepalMountainous Nepal, where at least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a plane crashed in the tourist town of Pokhara, has a history of dea...
All 22 bodies retrieved from Nepal plane crash"All bodies have now been found," Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Deo Chandra Lal Karn told AFP. "Processes will take place to identify ...
Inclement weather caused Tara Air plane crash, suggests preliminary investigation by Nepal's Civil Aviation AuthorityThe Canadian-built turboprop Twin Otter 9N-AET plane went missing on Sunday morning in the mountainous region of Nepal minutes after taking...
Nepal: Plane with 4 Indians onboard missing; search ops to resume on MondayOn Sunday morning, Tara Air's 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft carrying 22 passengers, including 4 Indians and 3 Japanese nationals, flying from...
Plane crashes in Nepal over the years claim hundreds of lives: A timelineThough Nepal's air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers a...
FlyBig to get 10 Otter Series planesA press release from FlyBig said the De Havilland Canada Twin Otter 400 Series has a proven track record of safe, dependable operations, as...
Govt eyes setting up 14 more water aerodromes for seaplane servicesThese will facilitate seaplane services on various routes including Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar, Assam, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand.
IAF chief formally inducts Dornier aircraft into No. 41 SquadronThe Dornier-228 aircraft is a multi-purpose, fuel efficient, rugged, light weight twin turboprop aircraft with a retractable tricycle landi...
Mahindra Aerospace, Canada’s Viking Air sign MoU to manufacture small aircraftViking produces the Twin Otter Series 400, a 19-passenger, twin-engine utility turboprop aircraft that is capable of operating from multipl...
All 23 bodies recovered from Nepal plane crash siteThe ill-fated plane was on a flight from the resort town of Pokhara, 125 km west of here, to Jomsom, the starting point for people trekking...
Helicopter missing with 5 people aboard in western IndonesiaA helicopter carrying five people has gone missing in western Indonesia, the latest air mishap for the country.
Plane with 18 people on board goes missing in NepalA Nepal Airlines small plane carrying 18 people, went missing while on its way from a popular tourist resort to a town in western Nepal.
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National carrier SriLankan Airlines today said it will soon acquire its first brand of new aircraft in more than a decade among the seven a...