Civil Aviation

Nepal is a nation that has many abandoned airports. When an aircraft first landed in Nepal, it was in a field where cows grazed– hence the name Gauchar Airport. This was pretty reminiscent of Lukla Airport– the most dangerous airport in the world – where when just before the first aircraft landed, grazing cows and…

Nepal already has three international airports: Tribhuvan International Airport, Pokhara International Airport, and Gautam Buddha International Airport. With problems existing in Pokhara International Airport, and virtually no international flights running, do we really need Nijgadh International Airport as well? Nepal has a list of many failed airports already. The Dharan Airport’s scam is something that…

It has not even been ten years that one of the main airports in Nepal – Pokhara Airport – transitioned from its domestic status into an international one. Its picturesque location, coupled with the most beautiful offerings in the city that is Pokhara, could have made it one of the busiest airports in Nepal, if…

Of all the aerodromes in Nepal, perhaps the most sumptuous looking of them all is Pokhara International Airport. The towering mountain that lies to the opposite of its magnificent entry, the obvious lack of danger associated with other airports such as Lukla Airport, the ability to serve the go-to touristic city in Nepal- Pokhara, are…

Dharan Airport could have been one of those names that could have been added in the list of all the (non-)functional airports of Nepal. And that too, quite a while ago. In 2003, some of the biggest businessmen arrived in Dandha Ghopa (a place in Dharan) making an astonishing offer to the villagers that buoyed…

While the sky might be the limit for the imagination of human beings, mechanical objects, like helicopters, are subject to altitude constraints. A helicopter has landed at the top of Mount Everest. A helicopter has even flown on the surface of the planet Mars. The helicopter eventually crashed, and this prompted the first-ever aircraft accident on…

Airbus A380 is the biggest passenger aircraft (alongside being the only double decker passenger aircraft) ever made. The longest non-stop flight in the world between Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) spans more than 9,500 miles and is conducted using the Airbus A350-900 ULR. The longest one-stop flight in the world…

Delta Air Lines’ Flight 4819 crash landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport was one of the most recent air accidents, and a horrifying one at that. A month or so ago when the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, based at Fort Belvoir, Virginia crashed with the American Airlines Flight 5342 killing all 67 people aboard both…

When a chopper (registered 9N-ALX) landed on a football ground whilst a match was being contested in Syangja district in Nepal, the passengers who had forced the pilot to conduct this bizarre landing met with a scuffle with spectators who were irate with this show of negligence. David Warner, who had once captained the Australian…