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Bhattedanda

Coordinates: 27°31′N 85°18′E / 27.51°N 85.30°E / 27.51; 85.30
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Bhattedanda
भट्टेडाँडा
Bhattedanda is located in Nepal
Bhattedanda
Bhattedanda
Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°31′N 85°18′E / 27.51°N 85.30°E / 27.51; 85.30
Country   Nepal
ProvinceProvince No. 3
DistrictLalitpur District
Population
 (1991)
 • Total
2,044
Time zoneUTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)
Postal code
44712
Area code01

Bhattedanda is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Bagmati Rural Municipality in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,044 in 349 individual households.[1]

On 28 September 1992, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 crashed in Bhattedanda, killing all 167 people on board.[2][3][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
  2. ^ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
  3. ^ Gero, David (2000). Aviation Disasters: The World's Major Civil Airliner Crashes since 1950 (3rd ed.). Sparkford, nr. Yeovil, Somerset: Patrick Stephens (Haynes). p. 232. ISBN 9781852606022.
  4. ^ McGirk, Tim; Wolmar, Christian (30 September 1992). "Hunt goes on for black box in Airbus wreckage". The Independent.
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