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Within an hour of the decision by Prime Minister K P Oli to bring back the bodies of the Nepalis killed in the Kabul bus bomb on the morning of 19 June, Foreign Minister Kamal Thapa had got the logistics moving. Nepal Airlines had been informed to have an aircraft ready to go, and the Embassy in Islamabad was informed to connect with the Afghan authorities to have the bodies ready at the airport.
The job of readying the aircraft and route permissions was given to Nepal Airlines under the charge of Capt Srawan Rijal, who has been the pilot liaising with Airbus of the airline’s acquisition last year of two 320-200s. It was 9:30 pm by the time the route permissions started coming in for the countries the plane would overfly. The Indian permission came first, and then the Afghan. But the Pakistan permission was delayed.The airline did not have any detailed airways navigation maps for Afghanistan or the final approach chart for Kabul airport. Capt Rijal worked hard to get all the permits and charts ready. He then had to program the onboard computers with the route for the journey to Kabul and back.
Kathmandu Airport closes at 12 midnight, and it was impossible to get everything ready. Nepal Airlines obtained special permission to take off finally at 3:30 am on Tuesday 21 June. By the time the plane had flown the 3.5-hour journey to Kabul the sun was rising and the crew readied the plane for the intricate descent over the Hindu Kush mountains.
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