{"id":547806,"date":"2023-01-17T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=547806"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:55:25","slug":"nepal-plane-crash-killing-68-further-blights-its-bad-air-safety-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nepal-plane-crash-killing-68-further-blights-its-bad-air-safety-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal plane crash killing 68 further blights its bad air safety record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been yet another disaster in one of the world\u2019s deadliest places to fly.<\/p>\n<p>At least 68 people were killed Sunday after a Yeti Airlines flight crashed when coming in to land in Pokhara, central Nepal, further blighting the country\u2019s notoriously bad aviation safety record. Just last May, 22 people died after a Tara Air flight crashed en route from Pokhara to the trekking base of Jomsom.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s was the 11th fatal plane crash in Nepal in as many years, Aviation Safety Network data show. Yeti Airlines was also operating a flight that crashed in 2008 at Lukla\u2019s Tenzing-Hillary Airport, which has a runway that angles down toward a valley and is regarded as one of the world\u2019s most dangerous airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been yet another disaster in one of the world\u2019s deadliest places to fly. At least 68 people were killed Sunday after a Yeti Airlines flight crashed when coming in to land in Pokhara, central Nepal, further blighting the country\u2019s notoriously bad aviation safety record. Just last May, 22 people died after a Tara Air flight crashed en route from Pokhara to the trekking base of Jomsom. Sunday\u2019s was the 11th fatal plane crash in Nepal in as many years, Aviation Safety Network data show. Yeti Airlines was also operating a flight that crashed in 2008 at Lukla\u2019s Tenzing-Hillary Airport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}