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Nepal plane crash: Black boxes of Yeti Airlines to be analysed in Singapore

Singapore's Transport Ministry will analyse the black boxes of a Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Nepal on January 15, killing all 72 people on board, including five Indians, in the country's worst air crash in 30 years. The Yeti Airlines flight 691, after taking off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in the resort city of Pokhara, minutes before landing. Fifty-three Nepalese passengers and 15 foreign nationals, including five Indians, and four crew members were on board the plane when it crashed. The Transport Ministry's (MOT) Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) will help retrieve and read the data from the twin-engine ATR-72 plane's flight recorder, said an MOT spokesperson in a statement on Thursday. The analysis will be carried out at TSIB's flight recorder readout facility, which was set up in 2007. All investigation-related information, including the progress of ...

Nepal plane crash: Singapore's Transport Ministry to analyse black boxes

Singapore's Transport Ministry will analyse black boxes recovered from the crash site of Yeti Airlines flight 691 at the request of the investigation authorities in Nepal, officials said. The flight smashed into a gorge on its final approach to the newly opened Pokhara International Airport on January 15, killing all 72 people on board. It was the country's worst air crash in 30 years. The Transport Ministry's (MOT) Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) will help retrieve and read the data from the plane's flight recorders, said an MOT spokesperson in a statement on Thursday. The analysis will be carried out at TSIB's flight recorder readout facility, which was set up in 2007. All investigation-related information, including the progress of investigations and the findings, will be handled by the Nepalese investigation authority, The Straits Times reported, quoting the spokesperson. Flight recorders, or black boxes, capture information about a flight such as instrument warni

Black box of crashed Nepal aircraft to be sent to Singapore for examination

Nepal will send to Singapore for examination the black box of Yeti Airlines that crashed in Pokhara, killing all 72 people, including five Indians, on board, a senior official said on Wednesday. Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane, who is a joint secretary at Nepal's Tourism Ministry and also a member of the probe committee of the air crash, said that three members of the investigation panel would be flying soon to hand over the black box to Singapore's Transport Safety Investigation Bureau. "Our team is heading towards Singapore in a couple of days carrying the black box," Lamichhane said, amid reports that the team would leave on Friday. Nepal decided to take the black box to Singapore as the two countries have a memorandum of understanding to assist in the field of aviation. The examination of the black box in Singapore is free of cost, Lamichhane was quoted as saying by The Kathmandu Post newspaper. The black box contains two types of recording devices - a flight data recorder (FDR) and a

5.8-magnitude quake hits Nepal; tremors felt in Delhi-NCR, Rajasthan

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal Tuesday afternoon with tremors also being felt in parts of Delhi, national capital region and Jaipur. The quake struck at 2:28 pm with the epicentre in Nepal at a place 148 km east of Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, the National Centre for Seismology said. "It was scary as the tremors hit," said Shantanu, who resides in a high-rise tower in Noida. Amit Pandey, a Delhi resident, said, "I was on the fifth floor of one of the blocks at the Civic Centre. I felt a growling noise beneath my feet and a mild shake, when the tremor passed through perhaps." Many others in the towering Civic Centre, the headqauters of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, also felt the tremors which hit when the House proceedings were underway. Tremors were felt in parts of Rajasthan's capital city of Jaipur as well. There was no immediate report of loss of life or property from there.

Failure to deploy full flaps may have caused air crash in Nepal: Report

The exact reason behind the crash will be known only after an examination of the flight data recorder, or the black box, the report added

Nepal PM Prachanda meets families of those killed in Yeti plane crash

Prachanda reached the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital to meet the families

India's fertility rate dips, but the decline is faster in Bangladesh, Nepal

A significant reason is India's higher fertility rates or the number of children born per woman

Salasar Techno Engineering gets Rs 143 cr EPC contract from Nepal govt

The project received from Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) will come up in Dang, Rukum East and Baitadi districts of the neighbouring nation

71 bodies recovered in Nepal's plane crash; last missing to be confirmed

With second body recovered at the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in central Nepal on Tuesday, 71 bodies had been found with the last missing victim remains to be confirmed, an official said

Nepal PM 'Prachanda' expands cabinet to 23 with 6 women in ministry

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpakamal Dahal Prachanda on Tuesday expanded his eight-member Cabinet to 23 with the induction of 12 ministers and three ministers of state, including six women ministers

Nepal plane crash: Toll rises to 71, bodies handed over to family members

Nepalese authorities on Tuesday started handing over to family members the bodies of those killed, two days after Yeti Airlines' aircraft with 72 people crashed in Pokhara, as death toll rose to 71

Nepal plane crash: Death toll rises to 70; handover of bodies begins

Two more persons are still missing and the search operation is continuing

Why does Nepal's aviation industry have safety issues: An explainer

Topography has gifted Nepal with picturesque landscapes, but posits unrivalled challenges to flight operations

Nepal newly elected PM Prachanda to expand cabinet after one month

The RSP will lead the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security, and will also get one state minister

Difficult terrain, loose regulations: What makes Nepal so risky to fly

In the past decade, there have been two fatal crashes on average every year

Black box of crashed Yeti Airlines aircraft recovered from accident site

The black box of the crashed Yeti Airlines aircraft was recovered from the accident site on Monday, officials said, as rescue operations intensified to locate the four missing people. On Sunday, a Yeti Airlines plane with 72 people onboard, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in the resort city of Pokhara, killing at least 68 people. This was Nepal's deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years. The black box of the crashed aircraft was found at the accident site and it was handed over to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, said Yeti Airlines spokesperson Sudarshan Bartaula. The cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder were recovered on Monday, as search and rescue teams rappelled down a 300-metre gorge to continue their efforts to locate the four missing persons. Since the accident site lies in a deep gorge of the Seti River, rescuers were finding it difficult to make much progress in search operations, Nepal

Crashed Yeti aircraft was previously owned by now-defunct Kingfisher

The Nepalese passenger plane, which crashed into a river gorge on Sunday with 72 people onboard, was previously used by the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, according to Cirium Fleets data. Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am on Sunday and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in Pokhara, minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. At least 68 people, including five Indians, were feared dead, officials said, in Nepal's worst aviation tragedies in over three decades. According to Cirium Fleets data, which tracks aircraft fleet, equipment and its cost, the 9N-ANC aircraft was delivered to the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines in 2007. Six years later, it was bought by Thailand's Nok Air, before it was sold to Nepal's Yeti Airlines in 2019, it said. Cirium Fleets data noted that the aircraft was managed by

I heard a bomb-like explosion, says Pokhara aircraft crash eyewitness

Eyewitnesses of the Nepalese passenger plane crash have said that they had a close shave as the Yeti Airlines plane, with 72 onboard, including five Indians, crashed near their settlement and a bomb-like blast was heard. At least 68 people were killed as the plane crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in the resort city of Pokhara on Sunday in the Himalayan nation's deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years. Kalpana Sunar was washing clothes in the front yard of her house when she saw an aircraft falling from the sky and coming in her direction, The Kathmandu Post newspaper quoted her as saying on Monday. The aircraft was tilted at an unusual angle and moments later, I heard a bomb-like explosion, she was quoted as saying. Then I saw a plume of black smoke billowing from the Seti gorge, she added. One of the plane's wings hit the ground about 12 metres from the house of local resident Geeta Sunar. Sunar, who had a miraculous escape said, "Had the

Nepal plane crash: At least 68 dead, rescuers search for 4 missing persons

Nepalese rescuers resumed their search on Monday for the four persons still missing after a passenger plane with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the newly-opened airport in the resort city of Pokhara, killing at least 68 people onboard. The accident took place on Sunday, the Himalayan nation's deadliest aviation accident in over 30 years. Rescue efforts were suspended on Sunday evening. Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). The bodies of people, who died in the air crash will be handed over to their respective family members on Monday, MyRepublica newspaper reported. Assistant Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kaski Anil Shahi said that the bodies that have been identified will be handed over to the ..

Nepal plane crash killing 68 further blights its bad air safety record

As many as 20 Nepalese airlines are prohibited from flying to Europe