Bishnu Rimal, Deputy Secretary General of CPN-UML expressed his grief over Sunday’s plane crash and said that there should be no hesitation in the implementation of the reports submitted by the investigation committee to the government.
Deputy Secretary General Rimal said that every time an investigation committee is formed after a plane crash, these kinds of accidents happen because the reports submitted by the committee are not implemented.
He said that if the report submitted by the experts is not implemented, the common people will be forced to travel between the situation of life or death when boarding the plane.
Deputy Secretary General Rimal said that the common people have a question as to how honest the government and related agencies are towards the findings of the inquiry committee. He said that the government and related agencies should be able to say if the report submitted by the experts is impractical or wrong, but it is necessary to end the tradition of keeping the report in abeyance without understanding the report and implementing it.
He said that people are raising questions about how much the report given has been adopted and it is time to address it. Deputy Secretary General Rimal said that if the relevant agencies do not implement the report submitted by the investigation committee, it will be discredited at the international level as well.
He said, ‘an unimaginable incident has happened. This is the first time that there has been such a huge damage in a domestic plane crash. After reaching the destination, it was seen that the accident happened. It has two aspects, one is the human, technological aspect, the other is the natural aspect. Yesterday’s accident does not appear to be natural and technical in nature. The crash appears to have occurred when the weather was clear and it was safe to land. The question of how honest we are about the conclusions we have drawn is widely raised now. Whoever we are in the government, whoever is in charge of the ministry, if the report given by the technicians is so impractical and wrong, then we should be able to say that it is wrong. That too is not found. There is a question mark regarding the extent to which the given report has been adopted. This question sometimes shows frustration and a kind of persistence in the general public.
It is time to address this. After the loss of so many people and material damage, it was not a big deal whether we should publish the reports given by the commission that has been formed now. If the relevant agency is to implement it, it should take care of the issues mentioned in the report. If we don’t do that, we will be discredited at the international level and at the national level as well, when all the people fly from one place to another, there will be a situation where they will return safely or not, now is the time to address this.’
Yeti Airlines flight number 691 ATR 72 flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara crashed in the Seti river gorge at around 2 km from Pokhara airport around 11:00 am.
