US-Bangla Flight BS211 plane carrying 71 passengers crashed at Nepal.
Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla Flight BS211 plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed while landing at Tribhuwan airport Kathmandu Nepal on Monday 2018 march 12. According to police 49 people were killed . Rescuers pulled bodies from the the plane, after a raging fire was put out. According to the airport control room the plane approached from the wrong direction. Because of this plane was miss-landed. It veered off the runway while landing. The Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli promised an immediate investigation of plane crash. However, a recording of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic control few minutes before the plane crashed suggests some misunderstanding over which end of the sole runway the plane was cleared to land on. According to the police spokes person Manoj Neupane, twenty two people are being treated in hospital for injuries.The plane was landed at 14:20 local time (08:35 GMT). The plane had begun to behave strangely as it approached Kathmandu, "a survivor said". While hearing the conversation between air control room and the pilot, the aircraft was permitted to land from the southern side of the runway flying over Koteshwor, but it landed from the northern side. Controll room was frequently comanding the pilot not to do that, but after the few minutes plane was crashed. However, US-Bangla Airlines chief executive Imran Asif blamed Kathmandu air traffic control. "There were wrong directions from the tower. Our pilot was not at fault," he told reporters at his office in Dhaka. "Our pilot is an instructor of this Bombardier aircraft. His flight hours are over 5,000. There was a fumble from the control tower." Airport general manager Raj Kumar Chettri told Reuters news agency that the plane hit the airport fence before touching ground. "The plane should have come from the right direction," he said. One of the survivors, called Basanta Bohora, who escaped the plane, is recovering in hospital. Nepalese travel agent Basanta Bohora, described from his hospital bed what he had experienced. "After a normal take-off from Dhaka, the plane had begun to behave strangely as it approached Kathmandu", he said. "All of a sudden the plane shake violently and there was a loud bang afterwards, I was seated near the window and was able to break out of the window," " he was quoted as saying by the Kathmandu Post.
He was taken to the Sinamangal Hospital, and from there he shifted to the to Norvic hospital.