A Turkish Airlines plane which took off from Istanbul to Kathmandu carrying 227 passengers met with an accident at the TIA this morning in course of landing. A press release issued by the TIA Office states that Rescue and Fire Fighting Services at the TIA saved the aircraft from catching fire. The Office also clarified that no human casualty was reported in the incident. Some of the passengers who arrived by that flight thanked the pilots for saving their lives, describing them as ‘great souls’. The passengers, who looked very nervous, said they luckily survived an imminent disaster. They shared their happiness with their relatives for having survived. The foreign passengers have communicated to their respective countries and relatives back home that they are fine. The CPN-Maoist has objected to the disruption of services at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) for the past three days. The party alerted the government to adopt ‘scientific and concrete’ measures to resolve the problem, citing the domestic and foreign passengers have been facing trouble and inconveniences as it failed to take initiative for resolving the problem in time. The CPN-Maoist said the government mechanism was not mobilized in an effective manner to ease the situation surfaced after an aircraft of the Turkish Airlines met with an accident on Wednesday in course of landing. The party said that it is regrettable that effective initiatives have not been made to clear the blocked runway. A press release issued by the Party Spokesperson, Pampha Bhusal, today states that bringing an aircraft of the Indian Airlines and soldiers tantamount to intervention on the national sovereignty. The press release also urges the government to think about humanitarian aspect of thousands of passengers by resolving the problems immediately.
