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Bad weather forces pilot to land chopper on playground

A chopper possessed by Mountain Air was forced to make an emergency landing on a playground in Bijuwar of Pyuthan district at 8: 30 am on Sunday morning after running into bad weather.

Mountain Air 9N AJP Chopper, with three ailing persons and two crew members, had left Rukum and was scheduled to make a stop at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.

The plane, ferrying three persons who sustained injuries in a local scuffle at Dolpa had actually landed at Musikot in Rukum on Saturday also due to bad weather.

The chopper will fly to Kathmandu following the favorable weather conditions.

source: THT online, 12:28 pm