Landing incorrect, claims Tribhuvan airport

The landing approach of the US-Bangla aircraft that crashed in Nepal's Kathmandu on 12 March was not correct, according to Tribhuvan International Airport officials.

"The plane was bumping. We had cried out for help before the plane attempted for landing," Tribhuvan International Airport general manager Raj Kumar Chhetri quoted a survivor as saying on Friday.

Chhetri said the survivor is known to him and he has now been undergoing treatment.

"Moreover, the control panel and many others told me that the landing was not normal," Raj Kumar Chhetri told a press conference in the afternoon.

Asked about any flaw by the Air Traffic Control (ATC) room, Chhetri said, "We neither denied nor admitted the flaw on the part of ATC."

A total of 49 out of 72 passengers died in the US-Bangla plane crash at Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday. A total of 26 out of 36 Bangladeshis died in the accident.