I was once returning to KTM from Pokhara with a foreign friend of mine. As we were waiting for our departure, he asked if the airline (Necon Air) had a lot of crashes in the past. Stupid me, I told him the fact that it had once crashed while approaching KTM from Pokhara. Sure enough, he looked scared, and furthermore it was heavily raining that morning. He looked a little better after I assured him that a different type of aircraft was involved in that accident. I hope he did not notice the Necon Air Avro parked not so far from the apron. It had been grounded there for quite a while after skidding past the runway. Five years prior to that, an Everest Air aircraft had returned to KTM to make an emergency landing after the landing gear failed while approaching Bhadrapur. The plane landed on its belly over a bed of foam at KTM. I had watched the landing on the NTV news. I was leaving for Pokhara the next morning with two of my foreign friends, and we were to fly to Jomsom the day after on Everest. Luckily, they were not watching the news. I just prayed and prayed that they would not know the news and cancel the trip because of it. I was also worried about the possibility of our flight being cancelled due to aircraft shortage. Luckily, they did not know about the incident, and we did manage to fly to Jomsom albeit after a three hour delay.