Pilot survives US-Bangla plane crash, co-pilot dies

Abid Sultan, the pilot of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed in Nepal has survived, the airliner says.

However, co-pilot Prithula Rashid could not survive, according to Kathmandu Medical College Hospital.

Prithula, the first officer of the plane, was among the eight, according to a bdnews24 report.

According to her Facebook profile, she had been working at US-Bangla since July 2016.

After graduating from North South University in Dhaka, she studied at the Arirang Flying School.