Nepal suffers weather forecast infrastructure crisis, resulting in rising casualties and losses

On May 29, a Tara Air Twin Otter en route to Jomsom from Pokhara crashed, killing all 22 on board. Following the crash, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation formed a commission to investigate it under the stewardship of its senior aeronautical engineer Ratish Chandra Lal Suman.

The commission is yet to submit its findings, but according to preliminary reports and local knowledge, the crash happened due to the aircraft flying in poor weather.

The government made another decision following the crash. According to the new rules, clear weather throughout the route is mandatory to carry out a flight. All flights following the visual flight rules (VFR) have to follow the decision, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal’s Deputy Director-General Devendra Lal…