Lost Freinds in The Himalayas.......

On 25 May 2004, I attended with my flight planning papers for my first despatch for flight of aircraft 9N-AFD to Lukla (Gateway of Mt. Everest) ,i could see little annoying facial expression of Capt. Prakash standing with co-pilot Ravi who was my good freind,i did not try to find out the reason cause we all were well known of his habbit.But i held his hand tried to make for some smile ,he shook his head looking at me strangely something like 'you guys will see ...'

He completed that flight with in 1 hour & 10 min. . My freind Ranjan attended the next flight & it departed at around 13:30. He said " crew will have lunch in Lukla" .We all knew that weather of Lukla could deteriorate .But we were assured abbout that cargo flight because of the captain who was most experienced on that route. we kept monitoring our flights through VHF .'

"9N-AFD reporting 25 miles" & than "9N-AFD reporting 40 miles". Kathmandu Tower-"9N- AFD report Lamjura" 9N-AFD- "rojer sir"
With in ten minutes at around 13:56 ,call from Tower & he said "Do you have position of 9N-AFD ?"i said "no,something wrong" he said "we lost the communication wtih 9N-AFD & it is not responding to Lukla Tower either" .

Aviation authority asked me about our company policy for flying in adverse weather, diverting philosophy, I called my other In-charge freind Santa whom he had family relation with captain .He came in minutes. We could see anxiety on everyone's face because into terrains due to bad weather is a major cause of air accidents. Search & Rescue work began .

Army helicopters took part on that mission and returned to the capital at 5:00 pm. They located the wreckage at the bottom of a cliff on the western side of Lamjura Pass. plane has broken into many pieces and only the wing portion is intact."NO SURVIVE" one of rescuers shouted.

Crashed into 3,600m Lamjura hill (which planes have to cross to get into Lukla )while on initial approach to Lukla in poor weather conditions
Once, he him self concluded that the pilots failure to maintain the Controlled Flight

In Nepal's 62 years of aviation history, the country has witnessed a total of 65 air accidents, out of which, 35 were fatal crashes.

As Reports from investigation ,he provided false information to the Tower by declaring that he was proceeding south of the track while proceeding along the direct track all the time.His hazardous behaviour and attitudes like over-confidence voilation of regulation had caused the accident but we all knew that sharp minded with huge helping attitude & always dedicated towards flying & towards company were no more.