Agni Air Flight 101 [SEP] point in time
Agni Air Flight 101
Agni Air Flight 101 was a regional flight operated by Agni Air between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Lukla, Nepal, that crashed on 24 August 2010, killing all 14 people on board. Twenty minutes after take-off from Kathmandu, the flight crew had reported technical issues with the aircraft, and requested a return to the airport; they were, however, diverted to a different airport. Five minutes after this transmission contact with the aircraft was lost; the aircraft was found crashed south of Kathmandu
Shikharpur, Makwanpur
Shikharpur (Nepali: शिखरपुर) is a village development committee in Makwanpur District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3884 people living in 667 individual households.
On 25 August 2010, an Agni Air Flight 101 flight crashed and 14 people along with the crew died here.