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Flight services have been disrupted after a fuel tanker capsized at Nepal’s Pokhara airport. A day earlier, Tara Air plane had crashed due to bad weather.
Nepal (Nepal Plane CrashAn accident happened near the runway at the airport in the tourist town of Pokhara on Tuesday. Here a fuel tanker overturned near the runway. Flight operations were disrupted after this incident. This information has come from media reports. According to a newspaper named ‘My Republic’, the tanker was carrying fuel from Nepal Oil Corporation. Pokhara airport spokesperson Devraj Subedi said flight services would be disrupted for some time due to fuel spill due to the overturning of a fuel tanker near the runway. Subedi further said, “Despite the fuel drop, no damage has been done.”
Further, he said that Yeti Air and Buddha Air flights from Kathmandu airport to Pokhara have returned to Kathmandu as they could not land at the airport. Let us also tell you that a crane has been called to lift the overturned tanker near the runway. It is worth noting that Pokhara has been in the news ever since a total of 22 people, including four Indians, were killed when a Tara Air passenger plane crashed minutes after take-off from the airport on Sunday. Life was gone. Actually, the passenger plane of Tara Air crashed due to bad weather. An inquiry commission has also been constituted to find out what caused this accident.
Nepal’s Prime Minister tweeted
Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has expressed condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the accident through Twitter. He wrote on Twitter that he is saddened to hear that all the passengers aboard Tara Air have died.
Aircraft have been victims of accidents in Nepal before
This is not the first time in Nepal that passengers have lost their lives in a plane crash. Earlier in 2016, a Tara Air plane was a victim of an accident. The accident was so terrible that all 23 passengers traveling in the plane died. Apart from this, in 2018, a US-Bangla Air plane crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport, in which 51 people died.
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