Nepal saw 17 plane crashes since 2000: Reason behind catastrophes
Live MintAt least 68 people died after a plane crashed on Sunday into a river gorge while landing at the Pokhara airport in Nepal. Nepal's air transport sector has been plagued by accidents due to poor maintenance, insufficient training and lax standards. The last such tragedy Nepal saw was in May 2022 when 22 people onboard a Tara Air plane were killed after it crashed in Mustang district. As the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal stated in a 2019 report: “…diversity of weather patterns together with hostile topography are the main challenges surrounding aircraft operations in Nepal due to which the number of accidents related to small aircraft….seems comparatively higher.” One of the airports in Nepal, Tenzing-Hillary airport, in Lukla at Everest base camp is considered one of the most dangerous airports in the world.