The co-pilot of the Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday was the widow of a pilot of the same airline who also died in a plane crash 16 years ago.
In 2010, Anju Khatiwada joined Yeti Airlines to follow in her husband's footsteps. Dipak Pokhrel was a pilot for Nepal Airlines but died when a small passenger plane he was flying crashed minutes before landing.
Anju Khatiwada was one of the pilots of the flight from Kathmandu, a city in Nepal, that crashed on approach to the city of Pokhara on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal's deadliest plane crash in three decades.
No survivors have so far been found among the 72 people on board. Khatiwada has not been identified, but she is presumed dead.
The ATR-72 plane piloted by Khatiwada spun from side to side before it crashed near the airport in Pokhara and burst into flames, according to eyewitnesses.
Nearly 350 people have died in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal since 2000. Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest mountains, including Everest, and sudden changes in weather pose a risk.
