The co- pilot of the unfortunate plane, which crashed in Nepal on Sunday, had lost her husband , also a pilot , in a plane crash in June 2006 .

This is what the BBC tells, explaining that Anju Khatiwada had been a pioneer being one of only six women employed as a pilot by Yeti Airlines and had flown almost 6,400 hours.

Anju Khatiwada was co-pilot of Yeti Airlines Flight 691 which crashed into a gorge near the resort city of Pokhara , killing all 72 people on board in Nepal's worst air disaster in 30 years. Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, was also a co-pilot on a Yeti Airlines flight before he died in an accident and it was his death that spurred Anju to pursue a career in aviation . Distraught over her loss, alone with their baby, Anju's grief became her motivating force.

“She was a determined woman who stood up for her dreams and made her husband's dreams come true,” a family member said of the woman.

The husband was in the cockpit of a Twin Otter propeller plane carrying rice and food to the western city of Jumla when the plane crashed and exploded, killing all nine on board.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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