According to the expert, one of the crashed plane’s wings may have fallen.
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– The plane flew above us and it looked like it was about to turn. It crashed into the right side of the ledge of the rock and then broke in two, he says Ganga Magar. He is the second eyewitness interviewed by Reuters.
Magar therefore confirms the same, which can be seen in the eyewitness video published by , in which the plane quickly spins to its left side so that the right wing appears to be towards the sky and the left towards the ground just before the plane hits the ground.
According to Magar, one of the plane’s rotors would not have been running before the accident.
Aviation expert Greg Waldron again, based on the video, he estimates that the other wing of the plane seems to have stalled, i.e. lost its lifting ability.
Another eyewitness, Sapana Khadka on the other hand says that he saw a huge ball of fire in the air just before the crash. The video does not show the fireball, but the plane disappears behind the house just before the crash.
Khadka says that she was afraid that the plane would fall on their house, but it fell right next to it.
“At least two women were still alive”
– I heard a strong explosion, like the sound of a bomb, says the person interviewed by AFP Arun Tamuwhich was 500 meters away from the accident site.
– We ran to the accident site and I saw that at least two women were still alive. However, the fire prevented us from going any closer.
There were 57 Nepalese, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, an Argentinian, an Irishman, an Australian and a French passenger on board the plane, which was traveling from the capital Kathmandu to Pokhara.
On Monday, a total of 70 bodies were found on the plane, two are still missing.
– The whole family is in pain, he says Raj Dhungana in the courtyard of a hospital in Pokhara.
He is a 23-year-old student who died in an accident, Sangita Shahin uncle.
Finnair has 12 ATR 72 planes
The cockpit voice and flight data recorders were found in good condition in the morning.
The crash plane of the Nepalese Yeti Airlines is a two-engine turboprop ATR 72.
The plane type is also used by Finnair, among others.
The length of the plane is 27.2 meters with a wingspan of 27.1 meters and a traveling speed of 463 kilometers per hour, it is said On Finnair’s website (you will switch to another service).
The first of Finnair’s fleet of twelve ATR aircraft was commissioned in 2007 and the last in 2012.
Sources: Reuters, AFP