On a May morning in Pokhara, Nepal’s tourist town in the lap of the world-famous Annapurna range, 40-year-old Hemanta Dhakal ...

Nepal’s $216 million international airport in Pokhara, the country’s second-biggest city, opened in January. China agreed to provide loans to build the airport more than a decade ago.

The Pokhara International Airport was not equipped with a functioning instrument landing system, Jagannath Niroula, a spokesperson for Nepal's civil aviation authority, told the AP.

Anju Khatiwada, who died on Sunday in a crash in Pokhara, Nepal, decided to become a pilot after her husband’s death in 2006. The family’s calamities are part of a deadly pattern of aviation ...