Narrowbody also 'grounded', 260 passengers stranded in Malaysia and Kathmandu

भाद्र १०, २०८१

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Widebody 'Annapurna' has been stuck in Italy for two months, Widebody 'Makalu' is going to Italy for 'C-Check' on Wednesday, meanwhile narrowbody 'Sagarmatha' has been grounded.

At least 260 passengers were stranded on Sunday when Nepal Airlines Corporation's narrowbody 'Sagarmata' was 'grounded' in Kathmandu since midnight on Saturday. 156 passengers had bought tickets to fly to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia with 103 passengers on Sunday night at 10 o'clock. The corporation has accommodated the passengers on both sides in hotels at its own expense.

Ramesh Paudel, the spokesperson of the corporation, said that after the narrow body was damaged, the stranded passengers will be sent to their destinations by other airlines and the tickets will be moved to the next day. From Saturday night, the agent is sending the spare parts of grounded narrowbody from America on Tuesday morning. The ship will be repaired and returned to flight on the same day, he told Kantipur on Sunday night. According to an engineer of

Corporation, after returning from Hong Kong on Saturday night, the pilots wrote in the ship's logbook that they could not fly due to a malfunction in the IGS (gas system) related to the narrowbody's fuel. "While the ship was in flight, when the fuel ran out, the problem related to the gas that did not fill the empty part of the tank with oxygen appeared 10 days ago," said the engineer. ;

The engineer said that despite this information, the corporation has asked the head of the engineering department for an explanation regarding the fact that the damaged equipment was not replaced on time. The corporation has four jets. A widebody Annapurna has been sent to Italy two months ago for 'C-Check'.

Another widebody Makalu is set to be sent to Italy on Wednesday. Since the widebody can no longer be kept on commercial flights for more than 47 hours, only one flight has been scheduled on Tuesday to Narita, Japan. As two ships were 'grounded' and another one was to be 'grounded' after the flight, the regular flight between Delhi and Malaysia operated by the corporation on Sunday was imposed on the airport named Lumbini. But Lumbini has canceled night flights to Malaysia.

The flight to Mumbai, which was supposed to be at 2 pm, took off from Kathmandu 6 hours late on Sunday. "Due to the delay of this flight, 13 passengers who were supposed to go to a third country from Mumbai had to leave from there. That's why they have stopped in Kathmandu, said a director of the corporation.

Lumbini's 11:00 p.m. Dubai flight is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Sunday. By the time this news was prepared (10:30 pm), the ship had not landed in Mumbai. After returning from Dubai, the flight to Bangkok at 11 am on Monday has been rescheduled for 1 pm on this ship. Due to lack of ships and pilots, the Corporation has been canceling the two daily flights to Delhi.

The daily income of the four planes of the corporation flying internationally is around 60 million. When 'grounded', a narrowbody loses around Rs 1 crore and a widebody loses around Rs 2 crore.

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