AIRPORT

Pokhara Airport (IATA: PKR, ICAO: VNPK), is a regional airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. The airport was established July 4, 1958 and is operated by the government (Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal). It offers regular connections to Kathmandu, Jomsom and seasonal connections to Manang.




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1 Airlines and destinations

2 Incidents and accidents

3 Terminal

4 References

5 External links





[edit] Airlines and destinations

Agni Air (Jomsom, Kathmandu) [4]

Buddha Air (Kathmandu) [5]

Cosmic Air (Jomsom, Kathmandu)

Gorkha Airlines (Jomsom, Kathmandu) [6]

Nepal Airlines (Jomsom, Kathmandu, Manang) [7]

Sita Air (Jomsom, Kathmandu) [8]

Yeti Airlines (Kathmandu) [9]

[edit] Incidents and accidents

6 November 1997 - A Necon Air Avro 748-100 (9N-ACM), after a flight from Kathmandu, suffered a hydraulic system failure after landing at Pokhara Airport and ran off the runway. The pilot steered the plane back on the runway after 100m, but it ran onto the ramp and struck another Avro 748 (9N-ACW) of Nepal Airlines), which was parked engineless. There were no fatalities among the 44 passengers and 4 crew. [10]

22 August 2002 - A Shangri-La Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300, on a flight from Jomsom to Pokhara, crashed into a hill which was under complete cloud cover following 3 days of continuous rain. All 3 crew and 15 passengers were killed. [11]

[e Terminal

The structural design of the current terminal was designed by Shyam L. Sharma in the early 1990's.
References

^ Pokhara Airport at Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal

^ Airport information for VNPK at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.

^ Airport information for PKR at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).

^ "Flying Schedule". Agni Air. http://www.agniair.com/home/schedule.php. Retrieved 8 June 2010.

^ "Flight schedule". Buddha Air. http://www.buddhaair.com/flightschedule.html. Retrieved 6 June 2010.

^ "Destinations". Gorkha Airlines. http://www.gorkhaairlines.com/html/destinations.html. Retrieved 8 June 2010.

^ "Schedule Effective from 15 May, 2010 to 30 October, 2010". Nepal Airlines. http://www.nepalairlines.com.np/ajadomsch.htm. Retrieved 7 June 2010.

^ "Destinations". Sita Air. http://www.sitaair.com.np/destinations.php. Retrieved 6 June 2010.

^ "Scheduled flights". Yeti Airlines. http://yetiairlines.com/yeti/page-scheduled-flights. Retrieved 6 June 2010.

^ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 18 November 2006

^ Aviation Safety Network retrieved 19 November 2006