The 44-year-old woman joined Yeti Airlines in 2010 with the goal of “making the dreams come true for her husband, Dipak Pokhrel,” who died in 2006 while co-piloting the same company. His life was killed along with 71 others in Sunday’s crash near the tourist town of Pokhara.
Husband and wife share a dramatic fate after 17 years. The co-pilot of the flight Yeti Airlines crashed in Sunday Nepal She was the widow of a pilot who had flown for the same airline and also died in a plane crash 16 years earlier, according to a reconstruction published by the British newspaper Guardian.
in 2010, Anju Khatiwada she had joined the Nepalese airline and was following in her husband’s footsteps, Dipak Pokhrel. It was his death that prompted the woman to pursue a career in aviation. Distraught at her loss, alone with her baby, Anju’s grief became her motivating force.
“She was a determined woman who defended her dreams and made her husband’s dreams come true,” said family member Santosh Sharma.
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Her husband was in the cockpit of a plane carrying rice and groceries to the western city of Jumla in June 2006 when it crashed and exploded, killing all nine people on board. Four years later, Anju was already on her way to becoming a pilot. She was one of only six women employed by that airline. It had flown nearly 6,400 hours.
“She was a brave woman,” said Sudarshan Bartaula of Yeti Airlines. “She was a determined woman who defended her dreams and made her husband’s dreams come true,” said Sharma, also quoted by the BBC.
His life was ended along with that of the other 71 people who were on board the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed while landing in the Pokhara region on Monday January 15.