Nepalese plane crash kills 15 pilgrims

The airport is a gateway to a popular destination for trekkers and for Hindu
pilgrims on their way to the revered Muktinath temple. It is about 125 miles
northwest of the capital, Katmandu.

The Dornier aircraft belonged to the local Agni Air company.

Nepal has
only a very limited road network and many communities, particularly in the
mountains and hills, are accessible only on foot or by air.

Aviation accidents are relatively common, particularly during the summer
monsoon, when visibility is usually at its worst.

A small Buddha Air plane taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount
Everest crashed in September last year, killing all 19 people on board.

The Beechcraft plane, carrying 10 Indians, two Americans, one Japanese citizen
and three local passengers, came down in heavy rain and fog at Godavari,
about six miles from Kathmandu.

The three Nepalese crew also died in the accident as the plane smashed into
wooded slopes.

An investigation blamed that crash on a combination of poor visibility and
human error.

Ten months earlier a Twin Otter plane carrying three crew and 19 passengers,
including one American, smashed into a mountainside shortly after taking off
from a small airstrip 140 kilometres east of Kathmandu.

The passengers were mostly Bhutanese citizens on a religious tour of Nepal and
had chartered the Tara Air plane to take them to a Buddhist holy site in the
area.

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