Nearly 700 people have been killed in air crashes in the country since 1992.
“Because of its terrain, because of its weather, because there is a need to fly between places — many of these communities are not connected by roads — it will always be a challenging environment with a higher level of risk than other parts of the world,” aviation safety consultant Adrian Young told The Washington Post.Nepal is home to eight of the world’s highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
Analysts say weather and mountains could explain why so many of Nepal’s air crashes are classified as controlled flights into terrain, or CFITs, when a pilot crashes without appearing to have lost control. Nearly 3 in 4 air crash fatalities recorded in Nepal over the previous decade were classified by officials as CFITs, the Civil Aviation Authority reported. The majority occurred in mountainous regions.
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