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How safe is the Nepali airspace?

Aviation experts have said it will get harder for the Nepali airlines to regain the confidence from the European Union to fly there after a fatal helicopter crash in eastern Nepali hills a fortnight ago.

Kasthamandap Air plane which crashed in Kalikot district some 650 kms west of Kathmandu on February 26, 2016. Two pilots were killed when a small passenger plane crash landed in Nepal on February 26 but all nine passengers survived, an airport official sa

Nepalese onlookers gather around the wreckage of a Kasthamandap Air plane crash in Kalikot near Kathmandu on February 26, 2016. (KAMAL SHAHI/AFP/Getty Images) Source: AFP

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By Pratichya Dulal




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