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Nepal Army Aircraft Crashes In Western Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
October 19, 2011: A Nepal Army aircraft RAN 49 Islander aircraft carrying a sick person, an attending medical doctor, and other relatives of the sick person has been flying from Nepalgunj: far western Nepal to Kathmandu for taking the sick person to the well-equipped hospital in Kathmandu. After a half hour, its radio link has broken up and most probably it went down at 7:00 PM yesterday killing all people on board.
Nepal police from the nearest police station at Burtibang of the Baglung district has set off to the site immediately after receiving the information on the plane crash. The site is at about five-hour walk from the nearest police station.
The Nepal Army has claimed that it has attempted to send the night vision helicopter for rescuing the people but it could not take off due to the bad weather.
