Nepal government has transferred six officers stationed at the Air Traffic Control Tower of at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) following Monday's plane crash.
The officers have been shifted to another department to ‘minimise shock of the accident’, reports Nepal’s My República.
The deputy director general of Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Rajan Pokharel, said this is a standard procedure to release stress after a fateful incident.
"They witnessed a huge disaster and they are shocked. Hence, we have transferred them to other departments to reduce their stress post-crash,” said Rajan Pokharel.
Pokharel clarified that the transfer was not due to the leaks of audio conversations between ATC and the pilot before the impact.
Earlier on Monday, the plane en route to Kathmandu from Dhaka crashed into a fence of the Tribhuvan International Airport with 71 people on board.
The last snippets of the conversations between the US-Bangla Flight BS 211 pilot and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) at Tribhuvan International Airport expose terrifying moments of confusion over where to land the aircraft.