The US-Bangla Airlines plane crashed near Kathmandu airport last March
A Bangladeshi airliner was misaligned with the runway and its pilot was disoriented and tried to land in “sheer desperation” when the plane crashed last year in Nepal, an investigation report said.
US-Bangla Airlines Flight BS211 from Dhaka crashed on its second landing attempt at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on March 12,2018. The 51 people killed were 28 Bangladeshi, 22 Nepalese and one Chinese national, and 20 others were injured. The pilot and co-pilot were among the dead.
The investigation report compiled by Nepalese officials and made available on Monday said the probable cause of the crash was the pilot’s disorientation and loss of situation awareness.
