Nepal plane crash, that killed 5 Indians, due to inadvertent movement of condition levers: Report
Reuters. The fatal airplane crash in January 2023 took the lives of all the 72 people on the Yeti Airlines flight, including five Indians.
On 15 January, the Yeti Airlines flight 691 took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, crashed on the Seti River gorge between the old airport and the new airport in the resort city of Pokhara. There were 72 people including four crew members onboard the ATR-72 aircraft when it crashed, but rescue officials have so far managed to recover only 71 bodies with the other missing passenger presumed dead.
Earlier reports had suggested that the Yeti airplane had crashed just ‘10 to 20 seconds’ before landing. An analysis of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder had showed the propellers of both engines went into "feather in the base leg of descending." Preliminary report released after the fatal crash had revealed that the Yeti Airlines flight lost thrust and fell after the propellers of both engines went into a feathered position.
Further, the then newly opened Pokhara airport in Nepal had also come under fire after a The New York Times reports did an expose on the construction quality and cost irregularities at the Pokhara airport financed by Chinese state-owned firms. As per The New York Times, the project, managed by China comprehensive annual maintenance contract (CAMC) Engineering, a subsidiary of Sinomach, has faced criticism, with accusations of inflated costs and substandard construction that compromised the airport's quality.
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