Nepal rescue pilot interview & where 'body after body' is turning up
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I'm joined now by Nepal's first female helicopter uh captain uh Priya Adikari who has already flown around 100 rescue missions in just the last few days since the flood. I you must be exhausted. I thank you for being here. You're welcome. Yeah, I think most of us are already exhausted. Yeah, because of all the flights we've been doing. It's incredible what you've done. Yeah, thank you. Yes, we are trained for this. Um we've been doing the rescues and dead bodies flights for a long time already. But inside this small, you know, small valley where you've been Yeah. It's a small place where so many people went missing. It's extraordinary that you I mean the the valley is is so close and you are flying through this. It's extraordinary. Just imagine 20 helicopters flying on that valley. Yeah. Continuously talking with each other. That is actually a little bit of pressure to to navigate and to radio at the same time and to know where who is doing where and we going to the same place evacuating from the same place like five or six helicopters landing. So we need to talk with each other so frequently. Yeah, that is actually and now I mean you are landing in places where the ground is like liquid cement. It's like it's incredible. It's um some of the places you have to be very careful because the helicopter might sink in. It looks from the air I imagine like to a to a novice. It looks like oh it's solid ground. It's concrete. No, it's not concrete. You step in it and you sink. Yes, that's how it is. It's a mud. I don't know from where it came. It was not like that before. I don't know from where it came. So it just it just you cannot just go and land completely leave the helicopter.