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On 14 May 2012, Agni Air Flight CHT Dornier 228, a scheduled passenger flight from Pokhara to Jomsom, crashed into the side of a hill near Marpha village 5 km (3.1 mls) southwest of Jomsom Airport, killing 15 of 21 people on board. [15] The flight attendant and five of the eighteen passengers survived but the plane was damaged beyond repair.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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).
Flight 613 made an emergency landing back in Lagos where the six injured people on board were taken to a nearby hospital, the airline said. They have all since been released, United Airlines ...
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 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 ...