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Flydubai Aircraft Returns to Dubai After Engine Fire Due to Nepal Bird Strike

A Flydubai Airlines passenger plane prepares to land at Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, 17 April 2023. (EPA)
A Flydubai Airlines passenger plane prepares to land at Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, 17 April 2023. (EPA)
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Flydubai Aircraft Returns to Dubai After Engine Fire Due to Nepal Bird Strike

A Flydubai Airlines passenger plane prepares to land at Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, 17 April 2023. (EPA)
A Flydubai Airlines passenger plane prepares to land at Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates, 17 April 2023. (EPA)

A flydubai flight from Kathmandu to Dubai experienced a bird strike during takeoff but returned to the United Arab Emirates, the company said on Monday.

"Our experienced flight crew followed standard operating procedure and continued the onward journey after determining that the engine was within normal operating parameters," a spokesperson for the UAE company said.

Jagannath Niroula, spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, said in a statement to Reuters that an engine caught fire shortly after takeoff from Kathmandu. The fire on flydubai flight 576 was under control and the Boeing 737-800 plane had 167 passengers on board, the Civil Aviation Authority said.

Flydubai said the aircraft landed normally in Dubai just after midnight local time and that further inspection would be conducted.

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American Climber Dies on World's Fifth-highest Peak in Nepal

01 May 2025, Nepal, Kathmandu: A domestic aircraft descends over the Kathmandu Valley as snow-capped mountain ranges appear faintly in the distance under a rain-laden sky. Photo: Safal Prakash Shrestha/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
01 May 2025, Nepal, Kathmandu: A domestic aircraft descends over the Kathmandu Valley as snow-capped mountain ranges appear faintly in the distance under a rain-laden sky. Photo: Safal Prakash Shrestha/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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American Climber Dies on World's Fifth-highest Peak in Nepal

01 May 2025, Nepal, Kathmandu: A domestic aircraft descends over the Kathmandu Valley as snow-capped mountain ranges appear faintly in the distance under a rain-laden sky. Photo: Safal Prakash Shrestha/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
01 May 2025, Nepal, Kathmandu: A domestic aircraft descends over the Kathmandu Valley as snow-capped mountain ranges appear faintly in the distance under a rain-laden sky. Photo: Safal Prakash Shrestha/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children's cancer program, officials said on Tuesday, the second death in the Himalayan nation's climbing season that began in March.
The world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu's peak is 8,463 m (28,000 ft) high, compared to Mount Everest, the tallest peak, at a height of 8,849 m (29,032 ft).
Alexander Pancoe, 39, died on Sunday while settling into his sleeping bag at the mountain's second high camp, after returning from an acclimatization trip at the higher camp three, Reuters quoted expedition organizer Madison Mountaineering as saying.
"Alex suddenly became unresponsive," the company said on its website. "Despite hours of resuscitation efforts ... they were unable to revive him."
Nepal's tourism department said it was arranging to bring the body to Kathmandu, the capital.
Pancoe, who survived a brain tumor when younger, had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam - climbing the highest peaks on each of the seven continents and then skiing to both the North and South Poles.
He had been battling chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for the pediatric blood cancer program of the Chicago-based Lurie Children's Hospital, said expedition leader Garrett Madison.
He had already raised $1 million to help fund clinical trials and other programs there, Madison added.
In April, a Nepali sherpa died on Mount Annapurna, the world's 10th highest mountain.
Wedged between India and China, landlocked Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and its economy is heavily reliant on climbing, trekking, and tourism for foreign exchange.