The Turkish Airlines plane skidded off the runway and veered onto the grassy shoulder during landing at the TIA on Wednesday morning. Flight TK726 from Istanbul was carrying 224 people when it ploughed into the grassland on the left side of the runway at Kathmandu’s fog-covered airport at 7:45am.
The airport was immediately closed to all but helicopter traffic. Flight TK726 has been sitting all day — nose down, tail up — right near the arrival terminal, with one wing just close enough to the runway to block the safe landing or takeoff of any other large aircraft. Hundreds of passengers waited at Nepal's only international airport which highlight Nepal's crumbling infrastructure.
The Indian Air Force’s Hercules aircraft is at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) to help to remove of the Turkish Airlines -which skidded off the runway with 224 passengers and 11 crew members on board.
Turkish Airlines had earlier on Wednesday taken initiatives and urged the Indian Air Force to send in its aircraft to remove the crashed Turkish Airliner jet.The Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has cancelled all the international flights until 5:00 pm today after an aircraft of the Turkish Airlines met with an accident in course of landing.
However, domestic flights have been resumed a while ago. Manager at the Office of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal at TIA, Purna Chudal, said the flights are cancelled due to the obstruction at runway as well as in view of security.
