Anju Khatiwala was the co-pilot of a Yeti Airlines flight that crashed on its way to Pokhara and lost her pilot husband in 2006 in similar incident.
Anju Khatiwada was the 44 years old co-pilot on the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu that crashed, killing at least 68 people in the Himalayan nation's deadliest plane accident in three decades.
Anju Khatiwada was the wife of Dipak Pokhrel, who was also a pilot and passed away in the crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla. Following the footsteps of her husband, Khatiwada joined Nepal's Yeti Airlines in 2010.
"Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla," airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula told Reuters, referring to Khatiwada. "She got her pilot training with the money she got from the insurance after her husband's death."
Khatiwada has more than 6,400 hours of flying time, and had previously flown the popular tourist route from the capital, Kathmandu, to the country's second-largest city, Pokhara, Bartaula said.
The body of Kamal KC, the captain of the flight, who had more than 21,900 hours of flight time, has been recovered and identified. Kathiwada's remains have not been identified but she is feared dead, Bartaula said.
"On Sunday, she was flying the plane with an instructor pilot, which is the standard procedure of the airline," said a Yeti Airlines official, who knew Khatiwada personally.
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"She was always ready to take up any duty and had flown to Pokhara earlier," said the official, who asked not to be named because he isn't authorised to speak to the media.
The ATR-72 aircraft that Khatiwada was co-piloting rolled from side to side before crashing in a gorge near Pokhara airport and catching fire, according to eyewitness accounts and a video of the crash posted on social media.
The cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the aircraft, which may help investigators determine what caused it to crash in clear weather, was recovered on Monday.
Nearly 350 people have died since 2000 in the plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal - home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Everest - where sudden weather changes can make for hazardous conditions.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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