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Nepal Crash: Pilot Error Likely, Plane Lost Thrust And Fell, Hints Probe
Investigations into the Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal that killed seventy one human beings remaining month suggest the sturdy opportunity of a startling blunders via way of means of one of the pilots. Five Indians had been additionally killed withinside the crash. The Yeti Airlines flight 691, which took off from Kathmandu`s Tribhuvan International Airport on January 15, crashed moments afterward the Seti River gorge among the antique airport and the brand new airport withinside the inn town of Pokhara.
The initial crash file famous that in preference to the usage of the flaps lever withinside the cockpit to configure the plane for landing, one of the pilots operated levers which “feathered” the engines – bringing engine electricity to zero. Less than a minute later, the ATR-seventy two plane crashed and stalled.
The aircraft misplaced thrust and fell after the propellers of each engines went into the feathered position. It is uncommon for the propellers of each engines to return back to a feathered position, the file notes. “When Air Traffic Controller (ATC) gave the clearance for landing…, the Pilot Flying (PF) stated two times that there has been no electricity coming from the engines,” the file says. The engines of the plane had been absolutely useful on the time of the accident.
The flight became being operated via way of means of Captains – one became withinside the procedure of being familiarised for operations into Pokhara. The co-pilot became an trainer pilot. The trainer pilot at the airliner became Anju Khatiwada, one in every of six ladies pilots withinside the airline. Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, flew for the identical airline and became killed in a crash in 2006.
The crash became captured stay via way of means of a few Indian passengers who had been additionally killed. There had been seventy two human beings, together with 4 team members, at the flight. Rescuers have controlled to locate handiest seventy one bodies, with the lacking passenger presumed dead.
According to the initial file, the flight team had made flights among Kathmandu and Pokhara in advance withinside the morning. The flight that crashed became the 0.33 in a row via way of means of the identical team. Nepal has one of the worst aviation protection facts withinside the world.
