The father of a flight attendant who was killed in the Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal along with at least 69 passengers has claimed that he pleaded with her to take the day off and spend a holiday with her family, but she refused.
Oshin Ale Magar, age 24, was one of four crew members killed when the jet crashed into a ravine on approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport at the foot of the Himalayas.
According to India Today, her father Mohan Ale Magar, a retired Indian army officer, recalls instructing his daughter “not to go to work” on the day of the Maghe Sankranti celebration since it was a “special” event.
According to the news source, Oshin, who studied in India, departed home on Sunday with a promise to join her family to celebrate the event, which marks the end of the winter solstice.
The young flight attendant, who had been married for two years and resided in Kathmandu, had worked for Yeti for two years prior to her marriage.
She was an ardent user of TikTok and recently recorded a brief selfie video in which she can be seen smiling in her yellow and green uniform in the cabin.
In the wake of her death, social media users reposted her TikTok video, with one user remarking, “Live life to the fullest while you’re still alive because death is unexpected!”
Magar, who recorded a TikTok video of herself, assured her family that she will return to celebrate a festival after her flight.
Meanwhile, two other passengers from the flight have been discovered.
Ballet dancer Ruan Calum Crighton was killed in a car accident on Sunday.
The Guardian said that British citizen Ruan Calum Crighton was a former ballet dancer who trained at London’s Central School of Ballet before an 11-year career with the Slovakian National Ballet and the Finnish National Ballet.
Myron Love, an Australian from Sydney, is believed to have perished in the catastrophe.
Myron Love, an avid cyclist and surfer from Sydney, Australia, who was also a teacher, was also assumed dead, according to the Guardian.
A Sydney artist who was Love’s friend wrote on social media, “It is with extreme sadness that I say we have lost one of the best people I have ever known.”
“Myron was one of my greatest loves. A truly pleasant, amusing, and active man. We shall always love you, my gentleman.”
The wreckage of the passenger jet that crashed in Pokhara is surrounded by Nepalese rescue workers and residents.
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In Pokhara, Nepal, medical staff put the body of a victim onto a truck for delivery to Kathmandu.
Tuesday, Nepalese authorities began releasing bodies to families and announced that they were sending the aircraft’s flight data recorder to France for study.
Toulouse is the location of the manufacturer’s headquarters for the ATR 72-500. The French air accident investigation agency has confirmed its participation in the investigation.
Monday, searchers recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and combed through the wreckage spread down the 984-foot-deep valley for corpses.
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