Buddha Air plane crash update: Seven passengers including the co-pilot suffered minor injuries
-
Media Baaji
- Sat, 3 January 2026
Kathmandu. Seven passengers, including one crew member, were injured in the Buddha Air plane crash at Jhapa Bhadrapur Airport at 9:10 pm on Friday. Rajan Limbu, Superintendent of Police, District Police Office, Jhapa, gave preliminary information that Buddha Air's ATR 72 flight with call sign 901, which flew from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur, overran 300 meters on the east side of the runway and landed on grass and mud.
There were 51 passengers, four crew members and one aircraft engineer on board. Among them, 24-year-old pilot Sushant Shrestha and six other passengers were injured.
The injured are Sabin Jogi, 40, of Bhadrapur 10, Preshika Adhikari, 20, of Virtamode 7, Sumitra Jogi, 42, of Virtamode 1, Kamal Prasad Katuwal, 28, of Damak 1, Muna Ghatani, 40, of Kathmandu 16 and Priya Ghatani, 16, of Kathmandu (16).
The rescue team of the Nepal Police immediately took the injured to Omsai Pathibhara Hospital in Bhadrapur for treatment. Superintendent of Police Limbu informed that 24-year-old Sushant Shrestha, the co-pilot, who was injured in the head and face, is being treated at the hospital, while the other six injured have been 'discharged' and returned home after general treatment. The plane took off from Kathmandu to Bhadrapur at 8:23 pm on Friday night and while landing at Bhadrapur airport at 9:10 am, it over ran and the accident occurred.
Related News
Holi is being celebrated today in Terai district
Nawalparasi Holi, the festival of colours, is being celebrated today with great enthusiasm in Terai districts. According to the tradition of celebrating Holi in Terai districts the day after Fagu Poornima is celebrated in the Himalayan and hilly d...
The minimum temperature of Kathmandu valley dropped by 3 degree Celsius in one day
Kathmandu. The minimum temperature of Kathmandu valley has dropped sharply. According to meteorologist Rojan Lamichhane of the weather forecasting division, the minimum temperature of Kathmandu valley has dropped to 6....
Fixed Bridge Alaptra: Compulsion to carry the transformer from the suspension bridge
Kathmandu. Electricity service has been brought back into operation after changing the damaged transformer in Ambukhaireni rural municipality-6 Pughar of Tanahun. To bring the new transformer to that place, the local residents and Nepal Electricit...
Deepak Bhatt and Sulabh Aggarwal sent to jail by special court
Kathmandu. The special court has ordered that businessmen Deepak Bhatt and Sulabh Aggarwal, who are charged with money laundering, be sent to jail pending trial. The special court president Basudev Acharya and member Hemant Rawal's joint bench iss...
The identities of the four people who went missing along with their car in Sunkoshi after the Nawalpurghat accident have been revealed
Ramechhap. The identities of the passengers in the car that fell into the Sunkoshi river on the Madhyapahari Lokmarg near Nawalpurghat in Sindhuli's Fikkal Rural Municipality 2 this morning have been revealed. According to the Sindhuli Police, at...
Nagadhunga-Malekhu road open from today, work going on
Kathmandu. Nagadhunga-Malekhu road section will remain open for a few days from today. Keshav Prasad Ojha, Head of Nagdhunga-Muglin Road Plan Eastern Section, said that the second layer of black sheet work has been com...