Investigators looking into cause of deadly Nepal plane crash

Yeti Airlines flight 691 banked sharply to the left and crashed into a nearly 1,000-foot gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing all 72 people on board.

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[BillDeFalcoGFE]

From a pilot's perspective, the sudden drop of a wing on Short Final (the last segment of the final approach to the landing) is known in pilots' terms as 'losing a wing' - an extremely dangerous situation in which the pilot in command has only seconds to react to, in order to prevent the aircraft from nose-diving into the ground, as tragically occurred in this instance. Many years ago, when I was a Student Pilot, the Cessna 172 aircraft that I was piloting along with a flight instructor "lost a wing' on Short Final. It was a very gusty day and we were getting bounced around quite a bit from the turbulent air, but I nevertheless had the aircraft under control. On my last practice landing for that day's training flight, everything was going well as I was guiding the Cessna in for a landing when suddenly, without any warning, and with the Cessna just a hundred feet or so above the ground on Short Final - the aircraft rolled sharply to the left, with the left wing dropping straight down and pointing to the ground. Before I could utter a word - my sharp, to-notch flight instructor held the control yolk firm while stepping hard on the right rudder pedal. His prompt responses kept the Cessna's ailerons in the neutral position while deflecting the rudder hard to the right and by doing this IMMEDIATELY - it arrested the aerodynamic stall of the left wing and rolled the aircraft to the right - bringing it back to a wings-level attitude that restored control of the aircraft, enabling us to land it on the runway, instead of nose-diving out of control into the ground, which surely would have killed both of us. After the safe landing, and as I taxied the aircraft back to its tie-down spot, my flight instructor explained to me the importance of keeping the ailerons neutral and only using right rudder to bring the stalled left wing back up in that situation. Had I attempted to roll the aircraft back to the right using the ailerons, the adverse yaw of the ailerons would have kept the left wing in a stalled condition, preventing it from coming back up - a huge mistake that would have caused the aircraft to ddose-dive into the groound. That was one of the most important lessons I ever learned as a pilot and it was permanently etched into my brain. I have to wonder if the pilot in command of this ATR-72 that 'lost a wing' on Short Final and nose-dived into the ground was properly trained in how to rapidly respond and quickly recover from losing a wing on Short Final.

[tandinpeljor]

From the kingdom of Bhutan, we send our sincere love and condolences to the people of Nepal. May the souls of all the cherished victims rest in peace in the celestial home. We feel sorry and ask God to soothe and heal you all. Love and affection, from the people of Bhutan.

[scillyautomatic]

I had a friend who flew for Air Nepal. He talked about the difficult terrain and the very thin air. He flew for them back in the 1980's. I'm sure there were even left safety measures back then.

[CrowGtVR]

This is devastating. I hope all the family’s are doing okay.

[dwightschrute]

Rest in peace to all souls onboard and condolences to their families.

[pattih]

Prayers for all the families of the victims🧡🙏🧡🙏🧡🙏🧡🙏🧡

[tr]

Does anyone remember the plane that took a straight nose dive in China about a year ago and it was just swept under the rug and forgot about?

[cll]

I just had a conversation with a pilot who flies one of these ATR72 aircraft for Amazon. He's familiar with Nepal and its new airport that's still working through its IFR approach system and as of now, requires a rather steep bank to the left in order to line up with the runway, requiring a higher than normal approach speed to prevent a left-wing aerodynamic stall. It's of his opinion that approach speed was too slow and what he predicted would happen - happened. RIP to the 72 lost souls on board.

[girishs]

This is the most risky area for landing and to travel from the airplane.

[James.G.Ireland]

You should never be allowed even become a pilot without thousands of hours training with crew/plane and any scenario that may happen

[ramman]

I refuse to believe it was a pilot error, it’s clear that it went into a stalled state, something must have been very wrong for the crew to request a different runway so late but tragically couldn’t tell why the craft wasn’t handling well possibly due to equipment failure giving faulty the fact that the airport is new is not an issue. And hope they are cleared of wrong doing after analysing the box data

[simongunson]

Turning from VNPK runway 22 to land at VNPR Runway 12 was illegal. Even the ATC clearance to make this turn was illegal. What Yeti 659 attempted is outlawed by ICAO Treaty Chapter 1.2.1 (continuous descent approach operations). This aircraft was definitely flying much to slow to make a right angle turn below 1, 000 feet altitude. it's slow speed caused the Left wing to stall first. The aircraft entered a spin with no altitude to recover.
The correct procedure at the old Pokhara airport was to abandon approach for Runway 22 apply full power establish positive rate of climb and turn 120 degrees climbing to a holding pattern at 6, 000 feet. This aircraft never flew a stabilized approach. It was on approach for the old airport VNPK, then tried to land at a different airport VNPR. Everybody in Nepal from the Minister of Civil Aviation on down to the ATC controller should be under arrest for this crash.

[westernsellers]

0:17 why do amateur footage always miss the actual crash lol I hate fake news

[tranquilgiftsonline]

The pilots were trained in USA and yet the commentator is saying Nepalese training is not adequate but the pilots that died in crash were trained by USA who whose training wasn't so proper really ? Condolences to the ppl and families who lost their loved ones.

[younglink]

this is a clear day tho ? can you explain

[vesaversion]

Something horrible always happens in the beginning of a new year. I suspect more horrible news is coming between now and the end of February.

[wildboy]

2020 Iran shut down passenger plane, 2022 china plane crash, and now this, why does we still didn't have technology to save people in a situation like this?, ive seen some ideas where a inside canister will seperate completly to a plane then land similar to a NASA capsule. why cant they make that thing possible. smh

[DTechnologyservices]

Video Game Pilot: In the flight simulator I had to request a different runway because of (ILS) Autopilot Land malfunction. Computer did not understand how to land at that runway, which is why I requested for a different one, but ATC told these guys yes. ATC on the game told me no cut Autoland and do a visual. Different times this has happened in my flight simulator it was due to 1, the game cutting out my left engine to see how fast I would respond to cutting out the other one and then slowly increasing throttle while adjusting wing formula. 2 heavy wind pushovers to see how quick I would throttle one engine down a bit while yoking opposite of the situation. 3, stuck wing position, the game locked one side of my ailerons (Right) to see how quickly I could adjust my left engine throttle down, reset ailerons then call ATC for emergency declare of landing. 4, two ILS transponders forcing the plane to land together causing the computer to use both ILS making the plane bank left then right over and over. << That took me 1 month to figure out what the game was trying to help me understand. Which was cut Autoland off visual land then file report in the game to ATC about the transponder error. 5, Pilot authorization, the game kept failing me for landing at certain airports until I got training on how to land around the mountains and short runways. I never completed that mission because the dam mission requires you to train for 1hr and 51 mins landing on 19 short runways 1hr and fly thru 34 mountains for 50 mins with no accidents and no autopilot with 747-400 before getting that certification. I complained to the developers that by law 747 cannot legally land at these runways nor can they fly low in these terrains and the respond was no but once you train to land a 747 every other aircraft becomes nature. I will be seeing how this plays out with NTSB.

[jdawgupinya]

I just looked at video of this same type of aircraft(ar-72) landing, and in the video you can clearly see from( front and side angles) the landing flaps which extend at least 3/4 of the way to the wing tips. Which means you should be able to see flaps down in the video footage that has been uploaded so far if the flaps had been down.I noticed this from the Facebook live video they didn't look down but wasn't sure. But after searching video of the same type of plane I seriously don't think they were down. I think that's what they're gonna find was the reason. Sad, sad tragedy.

[jjimmy]

Looks like slow speed caused the accident.