The two new ‘Dash 8’ series Turboprop aircrafts of Shree Airlines with Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) registration ‘9N-AOK’ and ‘9N-AOL’ are expected to land their home at Tribhuvan International Airport until midnight Tuesday.
The flights originated from Portland Airport, USA. The ferry flight has made stops at Canada, Iceland, Germany and now has declared night stop at Cairo, Egypt. The ferry flight has made rerouting from its original route. The aircraft will now be routed to Dubai, then to India and finally in Nepal.
The aircraft is being flown under command of Capt. Ritesh Karn and Capt. Biraj Rajbansi. The pilots and crew members have done such an amazing by ferrying two aircrafts to Nepal all the way from the USA. Making a lot of refueling stops on the way requires tremendous planning and workload which the crew member seem to have handled very well.
‘9N-AOK’ and ‘9N-AOL’ were delivered by Manufacturer to Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines to its previous operator on June 2011 and March 2011 respectively. Therefore, both the aircraft are in the verse of completing 13 years of service this year.
Shree Airlines has two CRJ-200, two CRJ-700, and four Q-400 Turboprop aircraft. Two CRJs and one Turboprop aircraft have been grounded for technical reasons. With the addition of 2 more aircraft Shree will be operating altogether 10 fixed wing aircrafts. However, CAAN has observed deficiencies in Shree Airlines’ Aircraft Maintenance procedure and performance.
