It was a mountain flight of Budha Air which everyday fly to view the Mount Everest and other Himalayan Ranges, however due bad weather conditions, the flight got crashed on the way back to Kathmandu.
As per the new of TOI," Adding to the chaos, Nepal's aviation authorities initially released a wrong set of victims' names, reviving memories of another air crash last year when the victims, mostly Bhutanese pilgrims, were at first declared to be Nepalis"
Finally, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu released the correct names of the 10 Indian victims, who included a woman.
They are Pankaj Mehta, who worked for the UN in Kathmandu, and his wife Chaya Mehta, and eight builders from Tamil Nadu's Trichy: K Thiyagarajan, RM Meenatchi Sundaram, Kattoov Mahalingam, D Hanasekaran, MV Maruthachalam, AK Krishnan, VM Kankasabesan and M Maniraran.
The dead included the three-member Nepali cabin crew of Captain J B Tamrakar, co-pilot Padma Adhikari and airhostess Asmita Shrestha. The others killed were two American tourists, Andrew Wade and Natalie Neilan, Japan's Uejima Toshinori and two Nepalis, Sarda Karmacharya and Jagjan Karmacharya.
The bodies had been brought to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for post mortem, the aviation authorities said. The Indian Embassy set up helplines for families and others to contact them for information.
For more information, please contact he emergency/hotlines:
00-977-1-4423702 [Direct]
00-977-1-4410900 - Ext- 4109
00-977-1-4414990 - Ext- 4109
00-977-1-4411699 - Ext- 4109
This tragedy has happened at the door step of peak season of tourism in Nepal and also is observing tourism year 2011 with aiming of attracting 1 million tourists. Nepal draws most of the tourists from India and thus aiming to promote its tourism in the Metro cities of India.
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