The pilot and co-pilot were killed when a small plane with 11 on board crash landed in western Nepal on Friday, two days after 23 people died in another crash. The single engine PAC P-750 aircraft of Air Kasthmandap was flying from Nepaganj to Jumla when it crash landed at Chilkhaya village in Kalikot district nearly 25 minutes after take-off. “Both the pilot and co-pilot were killed due to injuries sustained from the impact of the accident,” Pradeep Shrestha, chief district officer of Kalikot, told Hindustan Times. The injured passengers, two of them in a critical condition, were airlifted in helicopters to Nepalganj after receiving initial treatment at a health post. Reports quoted witnesses as saying the plane broke into two while trying to land in a maize field.Co-pilot Santosh Rana died instantly while pilot Dinesh Neupane succumbed to his injuries an hour after the accident. Preliminary reports said the plane could not land in Jumla due to a glitch. Witnesses said the plane went into a steep descent before it crash landed. It takes about four hours to travel from the district headquarters to the site of the accident, including a three-hour trek. Shrestha said two helicopters were deployed for the search and rescue operations. This was the second air accident in Nepal since Wednesday, when a Twin Otter aircraft of the private Tara Air crashed in Myagdi district, killing all 20 passengers and three crew members on board.
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