Nepal flight safety - Curt Lewis

Plane crash shines light on safety issues again (Nepal)

Issues of accountability and a general lack of safety culture are routinely cited by experts as the major factors behind the poor performance of airlines.

Feb 26, 2016- The crash of Tara Air Flight 193 on Wednesday has again spotlighted Nepal's poor air safety record. The Canadian-made Twin Otter aircraft slammed into the Himalayan foothills on a flight from Pokhara to Jomsom killing all 23 aboard.

In 2013, Nepali airlines had been put in the bad books of the International Civil Aviation Organization (Icao) and the European Commission (EC) as being unsafe to fly. After the latest incident, getting the significant safety concern (SSC) tag given to Nepal removed will be even more difficult.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (Caan) had said last December that it expected Icao to remove the SSC tag by July 2016 as most of the safety problems it had raised had been dealt with.