A Turkish Airlines A330 aircraft with 238 people on board has crash landed at Nepal's Kathmandu airport. The aircraft from Istanbul had aborted a first landing in dense fog and then circled the airport for around 30 minutes before making its second attempt. Flightradar indicates it overshot the runway, landed heavily nose first, the front landing gear collapsed and the plane then nose-dived along the grass verge between the runway and taxiway before ending up in a field. No-one was seriously injured.

I've landed twice at Kathmandu. It's spectacular as the aircraft has to weave between various hills before lining up for the runway. But it's not in the same league of complexity as its neighbour Bhutan where the approach to Paro is considerably more hair-raising!

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