00:01Hundreds of passengers and crew aboard a Turkish airline flight to Nepal were safely evacuated on Monday after the plane's
00:09landing gear caught fire while arriving at Kathmandu Airport, officials said.
00:14The right landing gear of the jet carrying 277 passengers and 11 crew from Istanbul caught fire during landing, according
00:23to a spokesman at Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority.
00:25He said the incident caused the closure of the airport's only runway for almost two hours in the morning, but
00:33it has since been reopened.
00:35Initial examinations indicate that the smoke was caused by a technical malfunction in a hydraulic pipe, according to a spokesperson
00:42for Turkish Airlines.
00:44The Himalayan nation is home to some of the world's most remote and tricky runways that poses a challenge even
00:51for accomplished pilots.
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