Saturday, March 7, 2015

Kathmandu Airport blocked by near Disaster of Turkish Airlines for days - Now open again

On March 4th at 7:45 a Turkish Airlines 726 Airbus 330-300 with 224 passengers and 11 crew members had a near disaster while landing at Kathmandu Airport. Since then the only runway of Nepals only international airport had been blocked and thousands of tourists have been stranded in Nepal, as Nepali Times reports. On Saturday March 7th the airport authority announced the reopeing of the airport from 8pm. See picture, how the Airbus was moved away. Nepal Airlines will fly to Delhi at 9pm and to Malaysia at 11pm. The airport will now be open for 24 hours during three days, reports Nepali Times.

Until Saturday March 7th it was not possible to move the Airbus away from the runway. Nepali Times reports, that Nepali migrant workers have been sleeping on the floors of airports in Kuala Lumpur, Abu Dhabi and other airports. Tourists coming to Nepal at the start of the spring trekking season have been stuck in Hong Kong, Dubai or New Delhi. Doha alone has 3,000 stranded Kathmandu-bound passengers. Domestic flights had been able to operate during the closure, but only with smaller aircraft.

On March 4 visibility was below a minimum due to fog and the Airbus had circled in the air for an hour before making an apporach. It had to pull up at the last moment because the pilot coldn’t see the runway. During the second landing try visability was poor again. The pilot landed very hard, the plane veered off the runway to the left, the nose crashed on the ground. All passengers have been reported safe.


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