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Hundreds of passengers who reached the airport after purchasing tickets have been stranded at home and abroad as two narrow bodies in China and Kathmandu and one wide body in Delhi were 'unfit for flight'. The corporation also had to lose income of crores of rupees on Tuesday.
8 hundred and 12 passengers were stranded when 5 flights from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Bengaluru in India and back to Kathmandu were canceled on Tuesday due to the fact that the corporation management could not provide the ship in time by announcing the flight schedule.
According to a director of the corporation, the corporation has canceled flights to Bangalore in Malaysia and India due to lack of aircraft. The widebody plane from Kathmandu to Delhi has also stopped there as it is undergoing routine maintenance. The ship sent to China for C-Check did not arrive in Nepal even on Tuesday. Stopped there. The Lumbini narrowbody plane, which was stranded in Dammam, Saudi Arabia for three days, landed in Kathmandu on Tuesday morning.
But after the problem of landing gear that appeared a week ago, the engineer of the corporation grounded this plane in Kathmandu, showing the safety of the passengers. The Annapurna widebody which reached Delhi at 5 pm on Tuesday has been stopped in Delhi by the engineer due to 'unscheduled' maintenance. 272 passengers from that plane were supposed to arrive in Kathmandu on Tuesday evening, in which most of them are Indian pilgrims coming for Shivratri, said an official of the corporation's marketing department.
"Air India technicians are checking the plane stopped in Delhi," an engineer of the corporation told Kantipur, "It is likely that the widebody returned to Kathmandu on Wednesday." A ship got stuck in China. Annapurna widebody flew the next three days in Malaysia with a three-day stopover in Dammam. As it could not be repaired, it had to be grounded in Delhi, said the engineer.
The Neurobody Everest in Shenyang, China, has been stopped there on Jan 20 for C-Check after a payment problem. The ship was scheduled to land in Kathmandu on Tuesday. But the officials of the corporation said that it is still uncertain whether the plane will come to Kathmandu. A crew member of the corporation arrived in China a week ago to pick up the ship.
Meanwhile, the narrowbody Lumbini, which was grounded as soon as it arrived in Kathmandu on Tuesday morning, was stopped in Malaysia for three days due to a problem with the front wheel. The plane was repaired and brought to Nepal only on Saturday by Malaysian Airlines technicians. On the same night, Nyrobody, which reached Dammam with 109 passengers, was again grounded at Dammam Airport after the problem of the nose landing gear was repeated.
After being repaired with the help of a Saudi Airlines technician, the Lumbini Nerobody, which landed in Kathmandu on Tuesday morning with 90 passengers, was grounded in Kathmandu after the technician suggested that it could not be flown. Kathmandu-Malaysia-Kathmandu and Kathmandu-Bengaluru-Kathmandu flights were canceled on Tuesday when this aircraft and the narrowbody in China were grounded. The pilots of the corporation say that due to the disturbance of these planes, the corporation's Wednesday schedule will also be affected and hundreds of passengers will be stranded.
