KATHMANDU, NOV 21: The equipment attached to a tanker used to refill planes caught fire at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu on Tuesday. The airport administration said that the fire was immediately brought under control.
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The tanker caught fire while refueling an aircraft on Tuesday morning. An employee of the tanker informed Republica that the tanker caught fire due to the installation of low-quality equipment in the oil tanker.
General Manager of TIA, Premnath Thakur said that it was a normal fire and it was extinguished immediately. "There was a normal fire in the tanker, we extinguished it immediately," he told Republica. The Sinamangal center of Nepal Oil Corporation has been operating these tankers.
