Civil Aviation

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…

There is pretty good evidence that turbulence is on the rise, and this is especially the case with Clear Air Turbulence (CAT). University of Reading reported that “the total annual duration of severe turbulence increased by 55% from 17.7 hours in 1979 to 27.4 hours in 2020.” Any passenger who is seated in an aircraft…

In a country such as Nepal, which houses some of the most dangerous STOLports and altiports such as the Tenzing Hillary Airport, bike accidents accounted for 68 percent of those killed or injured in road accidents. In a survey cited in the Kathmandu Post, “there were 1,102 deaths and injuries for every 100,000 people due…

In a few circles, it has been said that maybe there are six colors in the rainbow instead of seven- eliding “indigo” from VIBGYOR is one of them. It has been said that Issac Newton’s religious connotations with the number 7 coerced him to add in indigo to the list. We’ve all heard of the…

Nepal is a land of many distinctions in aviation – it is a nation where almost a third of the airports are either abandoned/ non- functional, it houses what is labelled as the most dangerous airport in the world, it has a long-forgotten airport that was more dangerous than Lukla Airport, an airport that could…

The tales of the airports in Nepal are quite fascinating. It houses what, often wrongly, is dubbed to be the most dangerous airport in the world. It still houses remnants of an airport so dangerous that when a personnel from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal went for a test flight, he “staggered out of…