Investigations into the Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal that killed seventy one human beings remaining month imply the sturdy opportunity of a startling blunders with the aid of using one of the pilots. Five Indians have 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 vintage airport and the brand new airport withinside the hotel town of Pokhara.
The initial crash file famous that rather than the use 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 strength 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) cited two times that there has been no strength coming from the engines,” the file says.The engines of the plane have been absolutely purposeful on the time of the accident.
The flight changed into being operated with the aid of using Captains – one changed into withinside the method of being familiarised for operations into Pokhara. The co-pilot changed into an trainer pilot.
The trainer pilot at the airliner changed into Anju Khatiwada, one in every of six girls pilots withinside the airline. Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, flew for the equal airline and changed into killed in a crash in 2006.
The crash changed into captured stay with the aid of using a few Indian passengers who have been additionally killed.There have been seventy two human beings, together with 4 group members, at the flight. Rescuers have controlled to locate best seventy one bodies, with the lacking passenger presumed dead.
According to the initial file, the flight group had made flights among Kathmandu and Pokhara in advance withinside the morning. The flight that crashed changed into the 0.33 in a row with the aid of using the equal group.
