Deaths of a pilot couple in Nepal air crashes

“She got her pilot training with the money she got from the
insurance after her husband’s death,”

Kathmandu: Anju Khatiwada, a pilot who had passed away in a tragedy four years earlier when a small passenger aircraft he was flying for the domestic airline went down just before landing, joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines in 2010 and continued in his footsteps.
In the Himalayan nation’s deadliest aviation accident in thirty years, Khatiwada, 44, was the co-pilot on a Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed as it approached the city of Pokhara on Sunday. At least 68 people were killed in the catastrophe.

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Among the 72 passengers on board, no survivors have yet been located.

Khatiwada’s husband, Dipak Pokhrel, perished in a Yeti Airlines Twin Otter disaster in Jumla in 2006, according to airline spokeswoman Sudarshan Bartaula, who also talked to Reuters. “She used the money she received from the insurance following her husband’s passing to pay for her pilot training.”

Khatiwada, a pilot with more than 6,400 hours of flight experience, had previously flown the well-traveled route from the nation’s capital, Kathmandu, to Pokhara, its second-largest city, according to Bartaula.

The body of the flight’s captain, Kamal K.C., who had logged more than 21,900 hours in the air, has been located and identified. Although Kathiwada’s remains have not been located, Bartaula stated that she is presumed dead.

According to a Yeti Airlines official who knew Khatiwada well, “On Sunday, she was flying the plane with an instructor pilot, which is the regular protocol of the airline.”