Bodies of crewmembers arrived in Kathmandu

July 18, 2002
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The dead bodies of Skyline Airways pilot Captain Bijay Giri and co-pilot Rakesh Awale were brought to Kathmandu from Surkhet Thursday morning.

Capt. Giri and co-pilot Awale died in a Skyline Twin Otter crash in Gargare Danda, 10 kms north of Surkhet and 490 kms west of the capital on Wednesday. The two passengers in the plane were DS Rawat  and D Basnyet.

Minister for Culture and Civil Aviation Bal Bahadur KC, family members and films actors were present in the airport.

The bodies have been taken to TU Teaching Hospital for postmortem. nepalnews.com/rh July 18