KATHMANDU: A Goma Airlines plane made an emergency landing at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday after a bird hit it soon after taking off.

The aircraft with the call sign 9N-AKZ had taken off for Lukla from Kathmandu when the bird hit the right wing of the plane at around 8:00 am today.

According to an official of the Goma Airlines, engineers are checking the aircraft.

All the nine passengers including the crew members on board are safe, said Dewananda Upadhyay, general manager of the Search and Rescue Coordination Centre at the TIA.

“A bird hit the right wing of the plane after the take-off. So the emergency landing was made and the crew members and all the passengers were saved,” Upadhyay informed.

He added that the aircraft's wing is damaged and it will take some days to repair it.

Earlier on February 24, a Tara Twin-Otter plane crashed in Myagdi district in western Nepal, killing all 23, including three crew members and two children, on board.

Similarly, on February 26, An Air Kasthamandap plane bound to Jumla from Nepalgunj crash-landed in Chilkhaya of Kalikot of mid-western Nepal, killing two crew members and injuring nine passengers.

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