The promise that Oshin Ale Magar, a flight attendant who studied in India and died in a plane crash in Nepal, would return from Pokhara after work so that she could celebrate the Magh Sankranti holiday with her family, prompted her to leave her home. sunday. Oshin, 24, was one of 69 people who died on Sunday after a Yeti Airlines 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft crashed into the banks of the Seti River in the central Nepalese resort city of Pokhara. There were 72 people including five Indians on board the plane.
When he learned about the plane crash, his family was preparing for a celebration at home. His father, Mohan Ale Magar, a retired Indian Army soldier, recalls asking him not to turn up for work early in the morning on a particular day. Mohan told Republica newspaper over the phone that he insisted on celebrating the festival after finishing two flights that day.
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Oshin had been working with Yeti Airlines for two years. The report said that originally from Madi in Chitwan, she had been living in Kathmandu after starting her job and had invited her parents to stay with her in the capital for the past six months.
Oshin has two sisters and a brother. She is the eldest daughter of four siblings. His brother is just four years old. It said that she took her brother and sisters to Kathmandu for their education.
She studied at Oxford College in Gandakot and India and graduated as an air hostess from Sahara Air Hostess Academy in Kathmandu. Oshin got married two years ago in Pokhara and her husband is currently in the UK. It has been said in the report that her father Mohan and mother Sabnam Ale Magar had reached Pokhara to identify their daughter’s body.
Yeti Airlines’ 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 a.m. and minutes before landing, it crashed on the banks of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport. Nepal (CAAN).
A total of 68 passengers and four crew members were on board the aircraft. Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Mount Everest, has a history of air crashes.
Sunday’s crash is Nepal’s deadliest accident since 1992, when all 167 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed into a mountainside while trying to land in Kathmandu.
with PTI inputs