Buddha Air, which has been flying to domestic destinations for 16 years, has sent the 47-seater 'Nine November-Alpha India November' aircraft to the hangar.
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An ATR-42 aircraft that has been flying in the Nepali skies for 16 years has been 'leave' from commercial flights forever since Monday. Buddha Air has retired the 47-seat ATR aircraft with registration 'Nine November-Alpha India November', which has been flying domestic destinations for 16 years.
Buddha Air introduced its first ATR aircraft in 2008 for domestic flights. Buddha is the airline that flies the most ATR aircraft in Nepal. It has three 47-seat ATR-42 and 15 70-seat ATR aircraft. A senior technician of Buddha Air says that at that time, around 30,000 bicycles were flown abroad and brought to Nepal by purchasing this aircraft. One takeoff and one landing in flight is considered as one cycle. This aircraft still has 17 cycles left.
'After completing 70 thousand flight cycles, there is a rule of ATR that the fuselage (the main body or structure of the aircraft) cannot be used in commercial flight, except for the landing gear, engine, and cockpit of the turboprop ATR aircraft. "According to the tests conducted by ATR in collaboration with American and European aviation organizations, every ATR aircraft has made a rule that the cycle (cycle) limit of every ATR aircraft around the world should be retired after flying 70,000 times," said another technician of Buddha Air. It is also rare in commercial flights. Buddha made only 14 domestic flights with this aircraft on Monday. On Tuesday morning, this ship is doing a mountain flight. "On the last flight on Tuesday, there will be a mountain flight with 16/17 passengers including two representatives from ATR's regional office in Singapore, some bankers helping Buddha Air with loan assistance," Buddha's office at the airport said. The ship will be saluted with a water fountain as a sign of respect.' Then the registration of this aircraft will be cancelled. Birendra Bahadur Basnet, executive chairman of Buddha Air, said that the hollow structure will be given to the Civil Aviation Authority for practice after removing the working tools used in it.
Aviation is the age of aircraft. But it is said that he does not grow old. Regular maintenance and scheduled replacement of machinery and equipment will not age the ship. As in the ATR, the cycle limit is not specified in the TwinOtter aircraft operated by the Nepal Airlines Corporation on domestic flights. It can be flown by swapping parts.
'In the 75-year history of aircraft flying in the Nepali sky, this is probably the first incident where an aircraft is about to say goodbye after completing its 'life cycle',' Captain YK Bhattarai of Boeing 757, who has served for 30 years in Nepal Aviation Corporation, said, 'In Nepal Often, as the aircraft got older, they were stored, crashed, and sold. But it was unheard of for a ship to finish its life cycle and say goodbye.'
Bhesraj Subedi, a retired aviator from the director of the authority's safety department, says that around 300 aircraft have been brought to Nepal so far by various airlines. About 70 of them had an accident, some companies were shut down due to closure, some were sold to foreigners.
"According to the rules of the company, it is probably the first incident in Nepal where a ship has completed a full cycle," Subedi said, "It is heard in countries including America. But it is a celebration for a private airline of Nepal to bid farewell to the ship with a safe flight.
