Anju Khatiwada died in a plane crash 16 years after her husband met the similar fate (Image: Family Handout)

The co-pilot of Sunday’s tragic airplane crash in Nepal lost her husband in a close to-equivalent accident 16 years ago, it has emerged.

Anju Khatiwada, FORTY FOUR, was once co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 from Kathmandu to the tourist the city of Pokhara, before the craft smashed right into a gorge and killed all on board.

The crash is the Himalayan nation’s deadliest aircraft accident in 3 a long time, and no survivors were found up to now among the SEVENTY TWO people at the flight.

It has considering that been discovered Anju’s husband Dipak Pokhrel had also been the co-pilot of a Yeti Airways flight ahead of he died in a similar accident in 2006 – and it was once his demise which spurred Anju to pursue her career within the first position.

‘Anju’s husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Dual Otter plane of Yeti Airways in Jumla,’ airline spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula stated.

‘She were given her pilot coaching with the money she were given from the insurance coverage after her husband’s demise.’

A pilot with more than 6,400 hours of flying time, Anju had up to now flown the preferred vacationer direction.