The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has formed a five member probe commission under the coordination of former Civil Aviation Authority Nepal (CAAN) Director General Triratna Manandhar to probe the crash of a cargo flight of Goma Air at Lukla Airport on Saturday noon.

A senior pilot and co-pilot were killed and a crew member injured when a cargo flight of Goma Air crashed as it was trying to land at Lukla Airport yesterday afternoon.

The probe committee comprises of Manadhar including members— Colonel at the Directorate General of Army Aviation, Captain Ashish Narsingh Rana, Senior Captain at Tara Air Bodh Raj Niraula, Senior Engineer at Manang Air, Digambar Rajbhandari and Civil Aviation Ministry Joint Secretary Suresh Acharya as the member secretary of the commission.

Injured flight attendant Pragya Maharjan has been airlifted to Grande International Hospital in Kathmandu this morning via Manang Air helicopter.

Captain Paras Rai was already pronounced dead at the hospital yesterday. The dead bodies of the pilots have also been airlifted to Kathmandu this morning.

On duty air traffic controller Ujjwal Tiwari said “The plane with call sign 9N-AKY slammed into the mound, fell 100 metres and broke into three pieces as it was preparing to land at 2:05pm."