What: Tara Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter en route from Jomsom to Pokhara
Where: Jomsom Airport, Nepal
When: August 19, 2012
Who: 19 aboard, no fatalities
Why: On taking off from Jomsom airport, the plane slid off the runway and into a river bed.
The Nepalese army performed the plane retrieval. No fatalities were reported.
(Note: This item had only one report and was not verified.)
What: Tara Air de Havilland Dash DHC-6-300 Twin Otter en route from Dolpa to Nepalgunj
Where: Dolpa
When: Sept 21, 2012 9:28 a.m.
Who: 6 aboard, no injuries
Why: Take off from the airport at Dolpa failed when the planes left wing encountered obstruction.
According to Vinaya Shakya, none of the two crew or four passengers were injured, although the plane sustained damage.
Nepal Airlines flight RA-206 suffered a bird strike near Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on November 18th.
The incident happened when the Airbus A320-200 plane flying from Delhi, India, was on approach to Kathmandu Airport.
The plane continued for a safe landing. All one hundred and thirty-five people aboard remained unharmed.
Contact photographer Michael Fritz
Eighteen people are missing over the Himalayan mountains of central Nepal on a Nepal Airlines Twin Otter en route from Pokhara to Jumla. The plane had stopped in Pokhara to refuel. The crew lost contact with Bhairawa ATC a quarter hour after taking off. The plane never arrived in Jumla.
The plane’s first flight was in 1971.
The route from Pokhara to Jumla flies over Dhorpatan and Rukum, and zig zags over tall mountains.
The last radio contact was at 13:13.
A fire was spotted in a forested area near Khidim but the search was called off due to weather conditions. Locals also reported hearing a loud noise. The Fishtail Air search helicopter was unable to land due to poor visibility and the air search was called off. On foot, the search continues with the Nepal Army, a team from Palpa and Mujhum Police.
The wreckage has not been located but the crash site is presumed to be on the border of Argakhanchi, Gulmi and Palpa districts, one and half hour walking uphill from Khidim village in Argakhanchi district.
There were three crew and fifteen passengers, all but one of whom were from Nepal. The foreigner is Dutch.
The crew was made up of Captain Shankar Shrestha, co-pilot Rabinda Banjara and Air hostess Muna Maharjan. The names of the passengers have not been released.
One child was also aboard.
A Summit Air freight flight crashed on the runway of Tenzing–Hillary Airport, Lukla, Chaurikharka, Nepal, on May 27th.
The Let L-410 flying from Kathmandu, Nepal, was about to land when it hit a tree near the runway and hit the land. The incident happened due to fog.
The aircraft sustained technical problems.
Captain and the first officer were killed in the crash. All three crew members sustained injuries.
The incident remains under investigation.
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Contact photographer Pieter-Jan Van De Vijver
What: Etihad Airlines Airbus A330-200 en route from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Abu Dhabi
Where: Kathmandu
When: Jan 17th 2012 9:15 pm
Who: 168 aboard
Why: While taking off from Kathmandu, the engine developed problems. THe crew shut it down and returned within minutes to land at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
Another source says the flight circled for an hour to burn fuel to lighten the landing.
Passengers were provided accommodations. Etihad engineers from Abu Dhabi arrived to handle the problem on January 21.
Bhutan Airlines flight B3-771 performed a missed approach before landing in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 15th.
The plane flying from Paro, Bhutan, was on final approach when the crew spotted a goat on the runway.
The crew initiated a standard missed approach and entered a hold while the airport crew removed the goat from the runway.
The plane landed safely. There were 68 passengers and 8 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained safe.
