Bird hit prompts Yeti Airlines plane into emergency landing

KATHMANDU, June 17: An Yeti Airlines plane had to make an emergency landing at Biratnagar on Wednesday after a bird hit it.

The plane on flight number 792 had just taken off at 1:29 pm for Kathmandu from Biratnagar Airport when a bird darted into the plane's engine. Following this the plane had to make an emergency landing within four minutes of take off.


All 29 people on board the plane are safe and they were brought to Kathmandu by another aircraft, Yeti Airlines station manager in Biratnagar, Prem Kunwar, said.

According to him, engineers are checking the plane as some fault has been seen after the bird got sucked up into the plane's engine.

Acting General Manager of the Tribhuvan International Airport, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal office, Birendra Prasad Shrestha said the incident is being investigated. RSS

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