KATHMANDU: Eight of the 10 Indians who perished in Sunday's air crash in Kathmandu worked with Tiruchirappalli Centre Builders' Association of India. The other two Indians were Pankaj Mehta and Chhaya Mehta, with Pankaj working for the UN in Kathmandu.
Adding to the chaos, Nepal's aviation authorities initially released a wrong set of victims' names, reviving memories of another air crash last year when the victims, mostly Bhutanese pilgrims, were first declared Nepalese. The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu released the correct names of the 10 Indian victims after going through their identification papers.
"They (the Indian tourists) checked into our hotel Saturday evening," said Furpa Sherpa, sales manager at Kathmandu's Grand Hotel. "They had come on a SpiceJet flight from Delhi and were to leave on September 27. We put them through to a local travel agency, Losar Tours and Travels, and they booked a mountain flight for Sunday morning," Sherpa added.
The dead included the three-member Nepalese cabin crew of Captain J B Tamrakar, co-pilot Padma Adhikari and airhostess Asmita Shrestha. The others killed were two American tourists, Andrew Wade and Natalie Neilan, Japan's Uejima Toshinori and two Nepalese, Sarda Karmacharya and Jagjan Karmacharya.
The crash could not have come at a worse time for Nepal that is observing tourism year 2011 with the aim of attracting one million tourists to revive its flagging economy. Indian tourists form the bulk of visitors in Nepal and Nepal Tourism Board has been organising promotional campaigns in Indian metros.
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