{"id":59138,"date":"2026-05-10T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-jet-catches-fire-while-landing-at-nepals-main-airport-all-passengers-safe\/10\/05\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:31:14","slug":"turkish-airlines-jet-catches-fire-while-landing-at-nepals-main-airport-all-passengers-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-jet-catches-fire-while-landing-at-nepals-main-airport-all-passengers-safe\/10\/05\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Airlines jet catches fire while landing at Nepal&#8217;s main airport; all passengers safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) \u2014 A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Nepal&#8217;s main airport on Monday, causing no reported injuries but forcing the airport to shut down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flight from Istanbul landed at Kathmandu&#8217;s Tribhuvan International Airport with fire and smoke on the right landing gear. Emergency crew responded and controlled the fire and passengers were safely evacuated, according to airport officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The airport was shut down on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_1a758qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_1a758qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_1a758qoqk5slubsnqq5bH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There were 277 passengers on board the Airbus 330 jet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several planes bound for Kathmandu were put on hold while officials were investigating and attempting to clear the only runway available at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nepal experiences relatively frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nepal-plane-crash-kathmandu-airport-a6ff1b2d560c55d2088b83eea1dab6d4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:plane crashes;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;plane crashes&quot;}\" class=\"link \">plane crashes<\/a> as its mountainous terrain and variable weather make flying conditions difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2015, a Turkish Airlines jet landing in dense fog in Kathmandu skidded off a slippery runway shutting down the airport for several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported, and the plane was later towed out of the airport and converted into a museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/turkish-airlines-jet-catches-fire-031341678.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) &mdash; A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Nepal&rsquo;s main airport on Monday, causing no reported injuries<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/turkish-airlines-jet-catches-fire-while-landing-at-nepals-main-airport-all-passengers-safe\/10\/05\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/social\/images\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}