Indian aviation experts to inspect Nepal's second international airport today

July 06, 2015 08:41

A team of Indian aviation experts will arrive in Kathmandu on Monday to inspect any possible damage to Nepal's only international airport due to the powerful April 25 quake besides offering help in constructing a second international airport along the border with India.

The four-member engineering team led by executive director of Airport Authority of India HS Suresh will carry out inspection of the Tribhuvan International Airport and also pay a field visit to the Simara Airport proposed at Nijgadh in Bara district, 200 km south of Kathmandu, officials said.

According to a senior government official, the team is arriving here to assess possible damage caused by the two major earthquakes and the subsequent aftershocks at the country's only international airport and provide necessary support to ensure its faultless operation.

They will inspect whether the physical structure as well as communication and navigation system of the airport were damaged by the earthquake or not, said Suresh Acharya, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation.

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