A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal on Monday, with fire and smoke engulfing its right landing gear. Although the incident caused ...

A Turkish Airlines jet caught fire while landing at Nepal's main airport on Monday, causing no reported injuries but forcing the airport to shut down.The flight from Istanbul landed at Kathmandu's ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal(AP) — Passengers and crew members were safely evacuated from a Turkish Airlines jet that landed at a Nepal airport Monday with smoke coming out of the landing gear, the airline said.

The incident caused the runway to close for almost two hours in the morning, but it has since been reopened, said a spokesman at Nepal's civil aviation authority.