Mouse cancels NAC flight to Bangkok

Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) today cancelled its flight to Bangkok after a mouse was spotted on its flight.
"The flight was cancelled immediately after the air hostess spotted a mouse in the plane,” said deputy managing director of the corporation Raju Bahadur KC. A mouse jumped out of the cupboard while the air hostess was preparing for the cutleries.
"The 9:00 am flight to Bangkok today had 127 passengers who were later taken by Thai airways to Bangkok," KC added.
"The plane is being well examined by our engineers and we are hopeful to resume our flights after 11:30 pm today,” he said, adding that the airlines has 190 passengers for the Kuala Lumpur flight scheduled for 11:30 pm, though he said that the NAC will not take any more flights till the engineers confirms of total security. "We cannot compromise with the security and safety of our passengers,” he added.

NAC currently owns only two plans but operating only one as the other aircraft is under comprehensive check-up in Israel. NAC had sent one of its two Boeings — 9N-ACA — for C check on August 28.
This time the aircraft will take about twenty days time unlike one or two months, he said, adding that the cost of C-check has also been decreased to $1.6 million instead of usual cost between $1.8 million to $2.5 million.
According to KC, the plane will be back on September 18 after its C-Check completion and start operation immediately after its regular examination.
At present NAC operates six international destinations; New Delhi in India, Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur in South East/Far East Asia and Dubai and Doha in the Middle East.
Direct flights to and from Dubai resumed from June 17, 2002 and Kuala Lumpur flight started from March 31, 2003. NAC flies to more than 25 destinations inside the country.
Currently some two dozen international airlines fly to Nepal but the ailing national flag carrier flies to only limited destinations due to lack of aircraft and regular political bickering that has hit the airlines financials hard.
Due to lack of aircraft of national flag carrier, tourists visiting Nepal have to pay higher air fare and it has also made the country an expensive destination compared to other countries.