KATHMANDU, Jan 16: Bishnu Rimal, Deputy Secretary General of CPN-UML expressed his grief over Sunday's plane crash and said that there should be no negligence in the implementation of the reports submitted by the investigation committee to the government.
Deputy Secretary General Rimal said such accidents are likely to repeat again in the future as the reports submitted by the probe committees are often not implemented by the government.
He said that if the report submitted by the experts is not implemented, ordinary people will be forced to travel in the situation of life or death while boarding the aircraft.
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Deputy Secretary General Rimal said that the common people have a question as to how honest the government and related agencies are towards the findings of the inquiry committee. He said that the government and related agencies should be able to say if the report submitted by the experts is impractical or wrong, but it is necessary to end the tradition of keeping the report in abeyance without understanding the report and implementing it.
Stating that people have started raising questions whether the reports submitted to the government are implemented at all, he said that it is high time to address the concerns raised by people. Deputy Secretary General Rimal said that if the relevant agencies do not implement the report submitted by the investigation committee, Nepal’s aviation sector may be discredited at the international level as well.
He said, "An unimaginable incident has happened. This is the first time that there has been such a huge casualty in a domestic airplane crash. It is seen that the accident happened near the destination. It has two aspects: One is the human, technological aspect, and the other is the natural aspect. Yesterday's accident does not appear to be natural and technical in nature. The crash appears to have occurred when the weather was clear and it was safe to land. The question of how honest we are about the conclusions we have drawn is widely raised now. No matter who we are in the government, and whoever is in charge of the ministry, if the report given by the technicians is so impractical and wrong, then we should be able to call it wrong. There is a question mark regarding the extent to which the given report has been adopted. This question sometimes shows frustration and a kind of persistence in the general public.”
Yeti Airlines call sign 9N ANC flight number 691 ATR 72, which took off from Tribhuvan airport to Pokhara on Sunday morning at 10:32 a.m., crashed into the Seti river gorge at a distance of about 2 km from the airport at around 11:00 a.m.
