Pilot had 'emotional breakdown' before deadly crash, Nepal probe panel says


  • World
  • Monday, 28 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: A wreckage of a US-Bangla airplane is seen near the crash site at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal March 12, 2018. REUTERS/ Navesh Chitrakar

KATHMANDU/DHAKA (Reuters) - The captain of a Bangladeshi aeroplane "seemed to have an emotional breakdown" before a deadly crash last March, Nepali investigators said in a final report on the Himalayan nation's worst aviation disaster in 26 years.

They blamed the crew's loss of situational awareness for the crash of the US-Bangla Airlines flight to the Nepali capital from Dhaka that caught fire on landing in Kathmandu, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard.

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