A Turkish Airlines plane that crash landed at Kathmandu airport two years ago is preparing to once again welcome ticket holders on board -- not for a flight but for a visit to the Nepali capital's first aviation museum.
The Airbus A330 was carrying 224 passengers when it skidded off the runway at Kathmandu's airport in March 2015, coming to a stop with its nose buried in the grassy verge on the edge of the tarmac.
No one was hurt, but the crash shut Nepal's only international airport for four days as technicians struggled to move the plane.
It was eventually dragged to a disused corner of the airport where it sat rusting for two years -- until pilot Bed Upreti had an idea.
Working only at night when the airport was closed, it took a team of engineers from Turkey six weeks to dismantle the plane into 10 pieces, before loading them onto trucks for the 500 metre journey across the road.
It took another two months to put all the pieces back together.
