Kathmandu - The investigation committee found that the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the crashed Yeti Airlines ATR-72 aircraft, which killed all 72 passengers on board in Nepal on January 15, indicated that there was a problem with the engine.
“In ATR-72 aircraft feather means to stay inclined to 90 degrees in spite of being in a certain degree as turned by the pilots. In order to increase the speed, the pilot has to incline the propeller blade using the liver that is in the cockpit. With the propeller blade standing at 90 degrees, the plane would lose aerodynamic movement,” the committee said in a report.
All 72 people, including five Indians and four crew members, lost their lives when a Yeti Airlines aircraft ATR-72 crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, last month.
The twin-engine ATR 72-500 aircraft plummeted into a gorge as it was approaching Pokhara International Airport in the Himalayan foothills. The crash site is about 1.6km from the runway, at an elevation of about 820m.
On Sunday, “Kathmandu Post” quoted Sudarshan Bartaula, a spokesperson of Yeti Airlines, as saying that the ATR 72 Yeti airlines aircraft crashed between the old airport and the Pokhara International Airport.
After the incident, Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal promised the families of the Yeti airlines plane crash victims to “expedite” the process so that they can have the bodies of the deceased soon.
Dahal met the kin of those killed in the tragic crash as he was not able to go to the site at the time of the accident. He assured them of accelerating the procedure.
Notably, the families and relatives are waiting for the bodies to be handed over to them at the morgue.
“PM Dahal promised the families to hand over the bodies as soon as possible expediting the procedures. The hospital can ask the government for additional resources in case they need to expedite it,” said the PM secretariat.
Earlier, the Nepal Army handed over the black box of the Yeti Airlines aircraft to Civil Aviation Authority officials.
A black box is a flight data recorder that records all flight information through a special algorithm.