An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on Sunday, a spokesman for Yeti Airlines said.
\n“There are 68 passengers on board and four crew members… Rescue is underway, we don’t know right now if there are survivors,” Sudarshan Bartaula told AFP.
\nNepal co-pilot’s husband also died in plane crash 16 years ago
\nThe 44-year-old woman joined Yeti Airlines in 2010, with the aim of \u201cfulfilling the dreams\u201d of her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, who died in 2006 when he was a co-pilot for the same company. Her life was cut short along with 71 others in Sunday\u2019s accident near the tourist town of Pokhara.
\nAuthor: Biagio Chiariello
\nHusband and wife united, after 17 years, by a dramatic destiny. The co-pilot of the flight Yeti Airlines fell sunday in Nepal she was the widow of a pilot who flew for the same airline, who was also the victim of a plane crash 16 years ago, according to a reconstruction published by the British Guardian newspaper.
\nIn 2010, Anju Khatiwada she joined the Nepalese airline, following in her husband\u2019s footsteps, Dipak Pokhrel. It was precisely his death that led the woman to pursue a career in aviation. Distraught over the loss of her, alone with her baby, Anju\u2019s grief became her driving force.
\n\u201cShe was a determined woman who stood up for her dreams and fulfilled her husband\u2019s dreams,\u201d said family member Santosh Sharma. Her husband was in the cabin of a plane carrying rice and food to the western town of Jumla in June 2006 when it crashed and exploded, killing all nine people on board. Four years later, Anju was well on her way to becoming a pilot. She was one of six women employed by that airline. She had flown nearly 6,400 hours.
\n\u201cShe was a brave woman,\u201d said Sudarshan Bartaula of Yeti Airlines. \u201cShe was a determined woman who stood up for her dreams and fulfilled those of her husband,\u201d said Sharma, also quoted by the BBC.
\nHis life was cut short along with those of the other 71 people who were on board the Yeti Airlines flight that crashed on landing in the Pokhara region on Monday, January 15th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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