Co-pilot of doomed Nepal flight lost her pilot husband in 2006 plane crash
Sunday, killing at least 68 people on board, was the wife of a pilot who lost his life in a plane crash nearly 17 years ago.
A pilot with more than 6,400 hours of flying time, Khatiwada had previously flown the popular tourist route from Kathmandu to the country’s second-largest city, Pokhara. The ATR-72 aircraft that Khatiwada was co-piloting rolled from side to side before crashing in a gorge near the newly-opened airport and catching fire, according to eyewitness accounts and aAuthorities on Monday recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the aircraft, which may help investigators determine what caused it to crash in clear weather.
Rescuers were battling cloudy weather and poor visibility Monday as they scoured the gorge for passengers who are unaccounted for, more than 24 hours after the crash. Sixty-eight bodies have been recovered so far. “The permission was granted. “We don’t ask , whenever a pilot asks we give permission to change approach,” the spokesperson, Anup Joshi, said.
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