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With much talk happening within the halls of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal about the long-awaited legislation for CAAN to provide better aviation safety, experts conclude it is unlikely to change the situation in the air any time soon and highly improbable to change International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and European Commission (EC) stance on the 'pariah' flight ban for Nepal.
With 17 major aeroplane crashes and many more minor incidents in the last 15 years, Nepal's air safety record has not exactly been stellar and their safety and security protocols are not up to the mark. But it was the period between 2010-2012 with six aeroplane crash incidents in just two years that the ICAO put Nepal on the safety concerns list.
And with European fatalities involved in these accidents, EC soon followed up with a swift ban that banned all Nepal airlines from operating in European airspace. In addition, EC essentially blocked any European travellers from flying any domestic carriers, by holding back insurance coverage.
In 2012, after putting Nepal on the safety concerns list, ICAO president, Roberto Kobeh Gonazlez travelled to Nepal to warn then-president Ram Baran Yadav to change the undermined state of the Nepalese aviation industry.
Due to conflicts of interest in the national body of CAAN, the leaders of the organization has proposed a law to split the body regulatory and safety provision parts of the institution on a priority basis as a fix. But with no developments happening due to political turmoil, Nepal was taken off the safety list by the ICAO in 2017.
Now with the upcoming auditors of ICAO coming to check and revise Nepal's aviation industry in about 100 days, the proposed law, all the way back from 2012 is being touted as the solution to finally remove Nepal from the EC flight ban list.
