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Jomsom Airport is located adjacent to the Kali Gandaki River at the northern end of the Kali Gandaki Gorge. The airport resides at an elevation of 8,976 feet (2,736 m) above mean sea level. [1] [3] It has one asphalt paved runway designated 06/24 which measures 2,424 by 66 feet (739 m × 20 m).
Nepal Airlines Flight 555 was a short domestic scheduled flight from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport in Nepal of about 20 minutes' flying time, operated by Nepal Airlines. On 16 May 2013, the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft operating the flight crashed while landing at Jomsom Airport. Seven of the twenty-one on board were ...
Pokhara Airport will be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport, in 2023. [4] While most operations were transferred to the new airport on 1 January 2023, the STOL (short takeoff and landing) operations to Jomsom are still operated from this airport. [5]
The aircraft was flying from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport on an unscheduled flight CHT. There were eighteen passengers, two pilots and a flight attendant on board. At 09:30 local time (03:45 UTC), Flight CHT attempted to land at Jomson, but the first attempt was aborted by the pilots. During the subsequent go-around, one of the aircraft's ...
Tara Air Flight 197 [4] was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Tara Air for parent company Yeti Airlines from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport in Nepal.On 29 May 2022, the Twin Otter aircraft carrying 22 people (19 passengers and 3 crew members) departed at 09:55 NPT (04:10 UTC) and lost contact with air traffic controllers about 12 minutes later at 10:07 (04:22).
The airport is Nepal's third international airport and officially began operations on 1 January 2023, [3] with STOL-operations to Jomsom still being operated from the old airport. [4] The airport is expected to handle up to one million passengers per year, [ 5 ] but as of 2024 [update] there have not been any regular international flights.
The airport and its challenging conditions have only added to the mystique surrounding travel to Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom of about 800,000 people. The unique conditions of flying in and out of ...
The airline operates from short takeoff and landing airstrips in the Western parts of Nepal. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The airline received the first of two Let 410 aircraft, financed by the Czech Republic Export Bank., [ 4 ] in October 2014, and initially only used them on flights to Lukla and Jomsom .