ReutersThe captain who survived a fatal helicopter crash in Nepal was saved after his pilot was shattered by a box just before the rest of the plane went into flames.
Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, the only survivor of the tragedy that claimed 18 lives at the Kathmandu aircraft, is receiving treatment in a hospital, but BBC Nepali has confirmed he is speaking and able to tell community members he is” all great.”
As lights surrounded the aircraft’s aircraft, firefighters reported to the BBC that they had reached the afflicted captain.
He was having trouble breathing because the heat weapon was closed. According to Senior Superintendent of Nepal Police Dambar Bishwakarma,” we broke the window and soon pulled him out.”
When he was rescued, he had blood all over his mouth, but we took him to the doctor in a speechless state, he added.
Badri Pandey, the country’s minister of legal aviation, described how the plane abruptly turned straight as it departed the airport before colliding with the eastern side of the runway.
The airport’s in lights careering across the runway before a portion of it appears to fall into a river at the far end of the page, according to surveillance footage.
” It hit the box on the top of the aircraft… therefore, it fell deeper below”, Mr Pandey said. ” The aircraft, nevertheless, remained stuck inside the box. This is how the skipper survived”.
The various airplane” tore into items after colliding with a local mound.” All was burned, according to Mr. Pandey, and the entire area that was separated from the area where the pilot fell into caught fire.
Within five hours of the collision, the captain was “rescued” and “was really scared but no unconscious at the time,” according to a statement from the Nepali army.
An army hospital therefore took him to doctor.
According to the patient’s medical director, Dr. Meena Thapa, he suffered wounds to his head and face and did immediately undergo surgery to treat broken legs in his rear.
He is being watched in the neurosurgical hospital, according to Thapa, who told BBC News Nepali,” We have treated injury on different parts of his body.”
On Wednesday night, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma visited the hospital, where he met people of the aircraft home.
Examinations are currently looking into the cause of the collision.
According to the airport’s mind, an initial examination revealed that the aircraft had flown in the wrong way.
” As soon as it took off, it turned right ,]when it ] should have turned left”, Mr Niraula told BBC Nepali.
Nepal’s bad weather safety record has drawn criticism. At least 72 people died in a Yeti Airlines crash in January 2023, which was later attributed to the aircraft ‘ error in severing the power supply.
The Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed on its way to Kathmandu Airport killing all 167 passengers, making it the deadliest heat collapse in Nepal since 1992.
Saruya Airlines operates planes to five spots within Nepal, with a ship of three Bombardier CRJ-200 planes, according to the company’s website.