Pilot in Nepal plane crash had an ‘emotional breakdown,’ officials say

The captain of a Bangladeshi airplane that crashed in Nepal last year, killing 51 people on board, appeared to have experienced an “emotional breakdown” during the flight, a report has found. The findings, released Sunday by a committee formed by the Nepalese govt, concluded that the pilot’s “irritable, tensed, moody and aggressive” behavior during the flight might have contributed to a “loss of situational awareness” when trying to land. The Nepalese commission found that the airplane’s Bangladeshi pilot, Abid Sultan, who was also in charge of the flight, had been showing signs of problems even before the plane took off from Dhaka. In the air, captain Sultan seemed “very insecure,” the report said. He acted aggressively with other crew members, smoked in the cockpit and complained repeatedly about a colleague’s criticism. <br/>