238 NA peacekeepers leaves for South Sudan via NAC's aircraft .

NAC's aircraft carrying 238 peacekeepers leaves for  under peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

KATHMANDU

RSS

 Nepal Airlines Corporation ’s aircraft carrying 238 Nepali Army peacekeepers has left for Juba in South Sudan. The peacekeeping mission took place under the United Nations Mission in South Sudan programme. The wide body A330 aircraft will transit in Muscat of Oman.

NAC said 250 Nepalese Army personnel who were stranded due to the lockdown returned Kathmandu on Wednesday night from Juba. The national flag-carrier operated chartered flights to the Central African Republic and Mali on July 8 to bring the Nepali Army peacekeepers. Six international flights are being operated today.

Korean Air will conduct a charatered flight to Kathmandu from South Korea today while Cathy Dragon will operate a flight from Hong Kong and Asian Air from Incheon of South Korea to Kathmandu. Also today, Himalayan Airlines will operate a flight to Kunming and two flights to Kuwait.

Meanwhile, NAC has brought home Nepali students from Bangalore via a rescue flight which  was the first rescue flight to be operated from India.

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