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Bhattedanda
भट्टेडाँडा | |
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Village of Bagmati Rural Municipality | |
  Bhattedanda Location in Nepal | |
| Coordinates: 27°31′N 85°18′E / 27.51°N 85.30°E | |
| Country |  Nepal |
| Province | Province No. 3 |
| District | Lalitpur District |
| Population (1991) | |
| • Total | 2,044 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time) |
| Postal code | 44712 |
| Area code | 01 |
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]
- ^ "Nepal Census 2001". Nepal's Village Development Committees. Digital Himalaya. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-03.
- ^ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
- ^ 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.
- ^ McGirk, Tim; Wolmar, Christian (30 September 1992). "Hunt goes on for black box in Airbus wreckage". The Independent.