The recent Malindo Air’s runway excursion at Tribhuvan International Airport has raised questions over the capability of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, the aerodrome service provider, as well as the ground handling agency, Nepal Airlines Corporation.
Experts have pointed that the incident unimaginably ensued chaos at the sole international airport for hours despite the fact that the B737 aircraft weighing just over 80 tonnes, fully loaded-only one third of that of a wide body like 777, was not damaged allowed for its rather easy removal.
An aircraft rejecting a take-off is not an unanticipated phenomenon and the aircraft are designed accordingly to sustain the accompanying stresses on its structures, while the flight crews are required by safety regulations to be trained for such an eventuality regularly, according to senior captain YK Bhattarai.
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