{"id":56830,"date":"2023-07-21T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/21\/nepal-air-crashes-safety-record-jobs-tourism"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T07:00:36","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous-places-to-fly-nepal-grapples-with-deadly-air-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56830","title":{"rendered":"One of the world\u2019s most dangerous places to fly: Nepal grapples with deadly air crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion of air travel has brought huge benefits to the mountainous country \u2013 but a poor safety record puts jobs and tourism at risk<\/p>\n<p>Fear, anxiety and resignation stalk Nepal\u2019s domestic airports. Norwegian tourist Waldemar Wergeland is relieved to have landed safely at Kathmandu\u2019s domestic terminal. He admits he was worried about flying in Nepal. \u201cWe did a lot of research before we made up our minds to travel by air,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>At the airport in the southern city of Siddharthanagar (also known as Bhairahawa), Nepali folk singer Alif Khan says he stopped taking flights to his performances after a recent deadly air accident. \u201cI started travelling by bus, but I got frustrated by the long traffic jams and landslides on the way. So even though I\u2019m scared, I\u2019ve started flying again,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jul\/21\/nepal-air-crashes-safety-record-jobs-tourism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expansion of air travel has brought huge benefits to the mountainous country \u2013 but a poor safety record puts jobs and tourism at riskFear, anxiety and resignation stalk Nepal\u2019s domestic airports. Norwegian tourist Waldemar Wergeland is relieved to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376,59,241,2952,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-nepal-holidays","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56831,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions\/56831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}