Anju Khatiwada, 44, had already logged thousands of flight hours and had actually flown the 27-minute flight from Nepal’s capital to Pokhara before.
Anju Khatiwada, 44, vowed to become a pilot after her husband died piloting a plane for Yeti Airlines in 2006. She joined the same airline in 2010 and achieved the rank of captain after flying for thousands of hours, according to The New York Times.
On Sunday, however, she was co-piloting a Yeti Airlines ATR 72 when it mysteriously plummeted into a river gorge barely a mile from its destination. Footage of the crash taken by eyewitnesses near the destination airport in Pokhara, show the plane descending smoothly toward a landing before the plane's left wing drops aggressively and the craft careens into a hill.
It's still not clear what caused the crash, which took place less than a minute's flight from the airport on a mild day with little wind.
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