POKHARA, Jun 15: An ATR-72 aircraft has met with an accident for the first time in the aviation history of Nepal. On Sunday morning, an ATR-72 aircraft of Yeti Airlines, which took off from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu for Pokhara, met with an accident. The aircraft  has a capacity of 70 to 72 seats. Earlier, Necon Air also operated ATR aircraft. But recently Buddha and Yeti Airlines have only ATR-72 aircraft in Nepal.

Jagannath Niraula, spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said that this was the first accident of an ATR-72 aircraft. However, he said, “The cause of Sunday's accident has not been revealed. For now, the rescue work is going on.” 

According to eyewitnesses, when the accident was about to happen to save the settlement called Alkapur near the accident, it is seen that the pilot may have taken the aircraft to Seti Gorge. “If the aircraft had crashed in the settlement, there would have been a greater loss,” said the eyewitnesses.

 
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