US-Bangla Airlines authority has claimed that the accident of BS-211 flight took place in Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal due to the mistake of the control room.
In a press briefing at US-Bangla office at Baridhara in the capital on Monday evening Chief Executive Officer of the airlines Imran Asif said, different directions were given in different times from the control room. And that was the reason behind the accident.
He said, US-Bangla has operated 36 thousand flights in the last three years without any error. There was no fault in this flight.
But Tribhuvan Airport General Manager Rajkumar Chhetri said the US-Bangla plane crashed at Kathmandu airport due to missed approach. Kathmandu Post reported this.
‘The plane flew past just above the air-traffic control tower during its descent for landing. It touched down the ground just next to a parked plane and ploughed through a fence on the east side of the airport, and plunged into the lower ground,’ said Chhetri.
Chhetri said when the aircraft approached ‘nine nautical miles’ the airport officials permitted it to land from south, but the pilot took the plane towards north for landing.
‘When control tower asked the pilot if there was any problem, the pilot said everything is okay. However, instead of landing from the north side, the plane went towards north-east and made two rounds,’ said Chhetri.
‘Again the tower asked the pilot why he didn’t land the plane and enquired if he was okay. In reply, the pilot said all is fine and he was preparing to land. The alignment of the plane was not properly adjusted for landing. When the air-traffic controller informed about the alignment, there was no response. And then the plane descended from close to airport tower towards the right side (near army hangar)’, he added.
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