{"id":547938,"date":"2023-01-17T11:04:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=547938"},"modified":"2023-01-17T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:17:37","slug":"treacherous-skies-mountains-lax-oversight-haunt-nepal-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/treacherous-skies-mountains-lax-oversight-haunt-nepal-air-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Treacherous skies: Mountains, lax oversight haunt Nepal air travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s aviation industry is plagued by poor oversight, treacherous terrain and volatile weather that make navigating the skies challenging even for the most accomplished of pilots.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Himalayan nation&#8217;s worst crash in three decades on Sunday, AFP takes a look at why the sector is so accident-prone and Nepal&#8217;s long list of aviation tragedies:<\/p>\n<p>Nepal is home to eight of the world&#8217;s 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, making it a popular destination for tourists and trekkers.<\/p>\n<p>But this rugged terrain makes flying difficult, especially during bad weather that occurs frequently and at short notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal&#8217;s aviation industry is plagued by poor oversight, treacherous terrain and volatile weather that make navigating the skies challenging even for the most accomplished of pilots. Following the Himalayan nation&#8217;s worst crash in three decades on Sunday, AFP takes a look at why the sector is so accident-prone and Nepal&#8217;s long list of aviation tragedies: Nepal is home to eight of the world&#8217;s 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, making it a popular destination for tourists and trekkers. But this rugged terrain makes flying difficult, especially during bad weather that occurs frequently and at short notice.<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547938","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=547938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}