Nepal students hold vigil for lives lost in Air Crash

Jul 26, 2024

Kathmandu (Nepal), July 26 (ANI): The student wing of ruling Nepali Congress, the Nepal Student Union on Thursday held a candle light vigil in memory of the victims of Wednesday's fatal air crash where 18 people were killed. The plane, carrying two crew members and 17 technicians, crashed and caught fire while taking off from Kathmandu. It was going for regular maintenance to Nepal's new Pokhara airport, which opened in January last year and is equipped with aircraft maintenance hangars. The students also paid tribute to the passengers of the twin buses that were swept by a landslide in Chitwan District. Out of 63 people swept into the Trishuli River on July 12, about 25 bodies have been retrieved so far and no progress has been made in locating the missing buses. The Pilot of the Saurya Airline plane that crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu is the lone survivor of the crash. The plane 9N-AME (CRJ 200) was only carrying technical staff of the airline, with no passengers on board.