Sultan had more than 5,000 hours of flying experience and was specially trained to land at the airport, said airline spokesman Kamrul Islam. Transmissions by the Kathmandu tower controller show that, despite being cleared to land on runway 02, the flight began deviating from its course. The captain and the tower controller discussed which runway the aircraft was aiming for, the website said. Later, the captain took over the conversation and confirmed the plan to land at runway 02. A US-Bangla plane took off for Kathmandu from Dhaka onTuesday, carrying seven airline officials and 46 relatives of the passengers.

Source: Sunday Times March 13, 2018 07:30 UTC