Posted on 01/15/2023 1:43:31 AM PST by BenLurkin
A plane with 72 people on board has crashed near an airport in central Nepal and at least 40 bodies have been recovered, officials say.
The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing, catching fire.
Videos posted on social media show an aircraft flying low over a populated area before spinning sharply.
There were 68 passengers on board, including at least 15 foreign nationals, and four crew members.
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That song about Kathmandu was running through my head the past few days. Not a place I would like to fly in. Sad.
Sad. Prayers for the families
When I went trekking there, and this was more than 20 years ago, we took the bus from Kathmandu to Pokhara. Rode on the roof. That way if it decided to plunge into a ravine we might still have a chance to jump free... Anyway we had no incidents and the trip of a lifetime.
Prayers for the passengers and crew.
Yeti Airlines? Really?
Great airplane, but a few bad crashes recently. Yeti airlines, I ain’t gettin’ on that thing.
Was it also the type where the pilot accidentally shut down the wrong engine right after take off? Oops.
I can’t remember.
Yes. That’s a famous accident I reference regularly. I’m a multi engine flight instructor.. Pilots shut down the wrong engine in Japan and hit a bridge. Ended up ruining the airline. This video looks like a poorly handled engine failure in a heavy airplane. There will be no survivors and probably deaths of bystanders too.
Yeah that was a shame. Guess he was overwhelmed. Unfortunately.
It’s the copilot pulling back on the joystick all the way down on Air France 447(?) that gets me.
No understanding of basic aerodynamics and needing air flow over the wings to fly?
Yikes 😳
I flew in to Phuplu, Nepal back in the early 90s. We were flying in a DeHavalland twin Otter. We came over a mountain and the pilot pointed that sucker at the ground. The landing strip was a farmer’s field on the side of the mountain. I almost had a heart attack.
At the beginning of the video segment, his AOA looked high like he was underspeed and at the edge of a stall. His left wing stalled first and he rolled into the ground.
That’s not it. There’s livesteam from INSIDE the plane too.
https://twitter.com/Ak470470Kumar/status/1614615840493830147
Thanks. I posted this before the corrections went up.
This could be a hack of the auto control system. Similar to what happened to our navy.
Yikes. ..
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