KATHMANDU, JULY 24
The details of the flight crew and the passengers on board the Saurya Airlines plane that crashed at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) this morning have been released.
According to the list provided, the pilot crew of the ill-fated flight included Captain Manish Shakya and Co-Pilot Susant Katuwal.
The crash occurred shortly after the Saurya Airlines plane, 9N-AME, took off for Pokhara from Kathmandu at around 11:11 AM. The aircraft crashed in the eastern part of the runway.
The passengers on board, all of whom were airline staff, were identified as:
Amit Man Maharjan
Sagar Acharya
Dilip Verma
Manu Raj Sharma
Ashwin Niroula
Sudip Lal Joshi
Sarbesh Marasain
Shyam Bindukar
Navaraj Ale
Rajaram Acharya
Priza Katiwada
Adhiraj Sharma
Uddhab Puri
Yagya Pd Paudyal
Santosh Mahato
Punya Ratna Sahi
Aref Reda