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US-Bangla Airlines suspends flights to Nepal indefinitely following Kathmandu plane crash
•The US-Bangla Airlines has suspended flights to Kathmandu for an indefinite period due to "shortage of aircraft", an official has said, two days after one of its planes crashed, killing 51 people.
Kathmandu plane crash: Lack of investigative expertise and follow up leaves passengers on a wing and prayer
Bikram Vohra •According to a list released by sleepingairports.net, Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport is among the world's worst airports — but that list was put out not long after the devastating earthquake which battered Nepal.
Kathmandu plane crash: ATC's rush to scapegoat pilot appalling, seems like a deliberate attempt to deflect blame
Bikram Vohra •It is appalling that the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport could so cavalierly discuss the pilot’s alleged refusal to obey orders and indict the flight deck minutes into the accident.
Kathmandu plane crash: Bangladesh team arrives in Nepal, to discuss possible reasons for accident with authorities
•A high-level delegation from Bangladesh on Tuesday arrived to discuss with Nepalese officials the issues related to a crash involving a US-Bangla Airlines aircraft that killed 49 people.
US-Bangla Airlines crash: Did communication gap bring down aircraft? Pilot-ATC confusion must be probed
Danila Yershov •The crash of the US-Bangla Airlines flight BS211, that killed 49 people on Monday near Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu, raises questions that must be scrutinised and studied by the established investigation committee
Pilot ignored Kathmandu ATC's orders; survivors onboard Nepal plane say crash sounded like 'bomb went off'
Fp Staff •Witnesses and survivors recounted horrific details of the Kathmandu plane crash which killed at least 49 people near Kathmandu airport.
Kathmandu plane crash: US offers condolences to families and loved ones of deceased victims
•US offered its sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims who were killed in a plane crash at the Tribhuvan International Airport.
Horrifying details from Nepal's Kathmandu airport crash emerge: 'Pilot didn't obey ATC, landed at wrong time'
Birendra Km And Saurabh Sharma •The pilot of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal on Monday did not obey orders from the air traffic control (ATC), the airport authority said. As many as 49 of the 71 people on board died, according to latest reports.
Forty nine killed in Nepal's worst-ever aviation disaster as US-Bangla Airlines plane crash near Kathmandu airport
Fp Staff •Forty-nine people were killed when a Bangladeshi plane crashed and burst into flames near Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, in the worst aviation disaster to hit Nepal in nearly three decades
Kathmandu plane crash updates: KP Sharma Oli assures immediate probe, reaches airport to take stock
Fp Staff •A Bangladesh airline passenger aircraft crashed while descending at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport on Monday, an airport official said.