The same fate, sixteen years later. Anju Khatiwada She was the co-pilot of Yeti Airlines Flight 691, which crashed near the city of Pokhara in Nepal last weekend. She died in the accident along with the other crew members and ai 68 passengers on board the plane, in the country’s worst air disaster in 30 years. The most serious, but not the only one: not even for Yeti Airlines. In June from 2006an airliner from the same company carrying rice and other groceries to the city jumla, in the west of the country, crashed to the ground and burst into flames, killing all nine people on board. The co-pilot of this flight was Dipak Pokhrel, the husband of the woman in the cabin of the plane that crashed a few days ago. According to BBC reconstructions, it was her husband’s fatal accident – and the grief that followed – that prompted Khatiwada to do so the same career path. “She was a determined woman who believed in her dreams and wanted to achieve those of her husband,” a family member of the couple told the British newspaper. Within four years, Khatiwada received the necessary certification, becoming one of the very few female pilots – only six – by Yeti Airlines. At the time of the accident last weekend, the passenger had almost caught up 6,400 hours of the flight. Before life gave her the same fate as her ex-husband.
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