Bhattedanda

Bhattedanda भट्टेडाँडा
Village of Bagmati Rural Municipality
Bhattedanda Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27.51°N 85.30°E / 27.51; 85.30
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]

References

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.

External links

• UN map of the municipalities of Lalitpur District