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☆ Airplane safety has hit a new record. But these ‘critical phase’ challenges are still a problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Maureen O'Hare | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Now in its 60th year, the IATA Annual Safety Report - compiled by the International Air Transport Association - has been tracking the evolution of commercial aviation safety since 1964. But despite this, 2023 had the lowest fatality risk and “all accident” rate on record. North America has maintained a fatality risk of zero since 2020, says IATA. Greg Lovett/The Palm Beach Post/USA Today Network/Sipa USAThe 2023 “all accident” rate was better than the year before in all regions except North America and Asia Pacific. Europe has maintained a fatality risk of zero since 2018.

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☆ Pilot of crashed Nepal plane reported no power in engines -preliminary report
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

KATHMANDU, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The pilot of a Yeti Airlines plane which crashed in Nepal killing 71 people said before the crash there was no power from the aircraft's engines, a preliminary investigation report said on Wednesday. The plane crashed just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhra on Jan. 15 in one of Nepal's worst airplane accidents in 30 years. There were 72 passengers on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal's Yeti Airlines, including two infants, four crew members and 10 foreign nationals. The report said the pilot flying the aircraft handed over the control to the pilot monitoring before it crashed. The information in the preliminary report may change as the investigation progresses, it said.

☆ This is the best place to be sitting if your plane is about to crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Plane crashes are extremely rare. Data from past crashes and crash tests show that the back of the plane is probably the safest. In the rare case that a plane goes down, some research indicates that the safest place to be sitting is in a middle seat near the back of a plane. A 2015 analysis by Time magazine of the Federal Aviation Administration's aircraft accident database looked at 17 plane crashes with seat charts that could be analyzed. Middle of the plane, middle seat: 39% — about one in 2.5 passengers.

☆ At least 4 U.S. residents among those killed in Nepal plane crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Two Americans and two permanent residents living in the United States were among the 72 people killed after a plane crashed in Nepal over the weekend, the State Department said. Price did not identify or provide any further details on the two U.S. citizens and permanent residents killed in the crash. On Wednesday, the French Embassy in Nepal said France had dispatched a team of aviation experts to assist the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal at the site of the crash. Sunday's crash was the deadliest Nepal has seen since 1992, when all 167 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when the aircraft struck a hill as it tried to land in Kathmandu. Since 2000, nearly 350 people have died in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal.

☆ Fact Check-Video purporting to show plane crash in Nepal on Jan. 15, 2023, dates to at least 2013
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A decade-old video of a plane crash has been shared by social media users who appear to believe it shows the 2023 Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal. At least 71 people, including small children, died in the Jan. 15 crash in Nepal, the country’s worst air disaster in 30 years (here ). Reuters reported on the crash, which happened on April 29, 2013 and involved a U.S.-run cargo plane. The video does not show the 2023 plane crash in Nepal. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

☆ No hope of any survivors in Nepal's deadliest crash in 30 years, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Family members mourn the death of a victim of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal January 17, 2023. REUTERS/Rohit GiriKATHMANDU, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Officials in Nepal said on Wednesday there was no chance of finding any survivors of the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, but workers will continue to search for the remains of the last missing passenger. The search for the last one will continue," Tek Bahadur K.C., a top district official in Pokhara, said on Wednesday. "Until the hospital tests show all 72 bodies, we’ll continue to search for the last person," Ajay K.C said. Search teams found 68 bodies on the day of the crash, and two more were recovered on Monday before the search was called off.

☆ Two U.S. citizens, two legal permanent U.S. residents among those killed in Nepal crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in Nepal's worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small children, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed on Sunday just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhara. Reporting by Simon Lewis and Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Chris ReeseOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ In Nepal Crash, Black Box Is Recovered From Yeti Airlines Plane
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nepalese authorities have recovered flight recorders from a plane crash that killed 69 people, a key step in their probe into what brought down the Yeti Airlines flight. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army, said search teams located the black box of flight YT-691 on Monday, a day after it crashed into the gorge of the Seti River as it was approaching the international airport at Pokhara, Nepal’s second-most-populous city after Kathmandu.

☆ Nepal plane crash searchers rappel, fly drones to find last passengers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A member of Arm Police Force works at a crash site of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft, in Pokhara, Nepal January 16, 2023. NO ARCHIVESKATHMANDU, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Searchers used drones and rappelled down a 200 metres (656 feet) deep gorge in west Nepal on Tuesday to search for two passengers still unaccounted for after the country's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, which killed at least 70 people. Searchers found two more bodies on Monday before the search was called off because of fading light. Reuters GraphicsUnder international aviation rules, the crash investigation agencies of the countries where the plane and engines were designed and built are automatically part of the inquiry. Reporting by Gopal Sharma, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by Jamie FreedOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Nepal Recovers Black Box From Yeti Airlines Plane Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Stacy Meichtry | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rescuers on Monday were searching for three people still unaccounted for in the plane crash in Pokhara, Nepal. Nepalese authorities have recovered flight recorders from a plane crash that killed 69 people, a key step in their probe into what brought down the Yeti Airlines flight. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army, said search teams located the black box of flight YT-691 on Monday, a day after it crashed into the gorge of the Seti River as it was approaching Pokhara International Airport.

Harrowing video has emerged of the plane that crashed in Nepal over the weekend, showing passengers’ excitement turn to terror and offering a rare glimpse into a flight's final moments. Authorities said Monday that they had retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from the wreckage. The recovery of the black boxes could offer crucial insight into what caused the crash of the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft Sunday. It was carrying 68 passengers on board, including six children, as well as four crew members. At least 41 bodies had been identified out of the 69 retrieved, Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.

☆ Plane Crashes in Nepal With 72 People On Board, Killing at Least 69
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Plane Crashes in Nepal With 72 People On Board, Killing at Least 69 The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu went down near its intended destination, the tourist town of PokharaBy Wall Street Journal Jan 15, 2023 10:20 am An aircraft carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal, killing dozens, according to authorities. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage. Photo: Reuters

☆ At Least 68 Killed in Nepal Plane Crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 68 people and sending Nepalese authorities into a scramble to determine what brought the aircraft down. The Yeti Airlines turboprop hit the gorge of the Seti River about a mile from its destination, Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Copilot feared dead in the Nepal plane crash was married to a pilot killed in similar crash 16 years earlier, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The copilot of a plane that crashed in Nepal was married to a pilot killed in a crash, per Reuters. The plane crashed near Pokhara airport, per Reuters, and was carrying 72 people. Khatiwada is feared to be dead but her remains have not been identified, a Yeti Airlines spokesman, Sudarshan Bartaula, told Reuters. The spokesperson confirmed to Reuters that Khatiwada's husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 when a Yeti Airlines passenger plane crashed in Jumla. "She got her pilot training with the money she got from the insurance after her husband's death," Bartaula told Reuters.

☆ Search resumes for four people missing in Nepal after deadly air crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

KATHMANDU, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. "We will take out the five bodies from the gorge and search for the remaining four that are still missing,” he told Reuters. [1/2] People stand near the wreckage at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Bijay Neupane 1 2The other 63 bodies had been sent to a hospital, he said. Nepal has declared a day of national mourning on Monday and set up a panel to investigate the disaster and suggest measures to avoid such incidents in future.

☆ Searchers find black boxes of aircraft in deadly Nepal crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rescuers inspect the wreckage at the site of a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara on January 16, 2023. Searchers on Monday found both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a passenger flight that crashed on Sunday, killing at least 68 people in Nepal's deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. The data on the recorders may help investigators determine what caused the ATR 72 aircraft, carrying 72 people, to crash in clear weather just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhara. Rescuers were battling cloudy weather and poor visibility as they scoured the river gorge for passengers who are unaccounted for, more than 24 hours after the crash. Reuters footage from the crash site showed rescuers looking at the charred remains of the plane near a gorge in the mountains.

☆ A pilot couple killed in air crashes in Nepal - 16 years apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A rescue team recovers the body of a victim from the site of the plane crash of a Yeti Airlines operated aircraft on January 15, 2023, in Pokhara, Nepal January 16, 2023. "Her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, died in 2006 in a crash of a Twin Otter plane of Yeti Airlines in Jumla," airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula told Reuters, referring to Khatiwada. "She got her pilot training with the money she got from the insurance after her husband's death." A pilot with more than 6,400 hours of flying time, Khatiwada had previously flown the popular tourist route from the capital, Kathmandu, to the country's second-largest city, Pokhara, Bartaula said. "On Sunday, she was flying the plane with an instructor pilot, which is the standard procedure of the airline," said an Yeti Airlines official, who knew Khatiwada personally.

☆ Plane Crashes in Nepal With 72 People On Board, Killing at Least 68
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Plane Crashes in Nepal With 72 People On Board, Killing at Least 68 The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu went down near its intended destination, the tourist town of PokharaBy Wall Street Journal Jan 15, 2023 10:20 am An aircraft carrying 72 people crashed in Nepal, killing dozens, according to authorities. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage. Photo: Reuters

☆ Nepal Plane Crash Kills Dozens, Some Remain Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane carrying 72 people crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 62, according to a spokesman for the Nepalese army. The Yeti Airlines aircraft went down in the gorge of the Seti River about a mile away from Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the army spokesman. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Nepal Plane Crash Kills Dozens, Many Remain Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Krishna Pokharel | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A plane carrying 72 people crashed into a river gorge in central Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 29, according to a spokesman for the Nepalese army. The Yeti Airlines aircraft went down in the gorge of the Seti River about a mile away from Pokhara International Airport, according to Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the army spokesman. Photos and TV footage showed black plumes of smoke and fire at the site, with crowds swarming around the wreckage.

☆ Plane carrying 72 people crashes in Nepal
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: 1 min

At least 16 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft crashed in western Nepal, an army spokesman said, as hundreds of rescue workers scoured the hillside crash site. “We expect to recover more bodies,” Krishna Bhandari told Reuters. “The plane has broken into pieces.”There were 72 people on the twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, including two infants, four crew members and 10 foreign nationals, said airline spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula. “We are trying to ascertain it.”Local television showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft. Air accidents are not uncommon in Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, including Everest, as the weather can change suddenly and make for hazardous conditions.

☆ At least 16 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in 30 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Rescuers and onlookers gather at the site of a plane crash in Pokhara on January 15, 2023. An aircraft with 72 people on board crashed in Nepal on January 15, Yeti Airlines and a local official said. At least 16 people were killed on Sunday when an aircraft crashed in western Nepal's Pokhara, an army spokesman said, in the small Himalayan country's worst crash in more than 30 years. Yeti Airlines has a fleet of six ATR72-500 planes, according to its website. Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an emergency cabinet meeting after the plane crash, a government statement said.

☆ At least 40 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in nearly five years
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Gopal Sharma | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Crowds gather at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. Sagar Raj Timilsina/Handout via REUTERSKATHMANDU, Jan 15 (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said, in the small Himalayan country's worst crash in nearly five years. Local television showed thick black smoke billowing from the crash site as rescue workers and crowds of people gathered around the wreckage of the aircraft. The plane was 15 years old, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24. Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has called an emergency cabinet meeting after the plane crash, a government statement said.

☆ Factbox: Deadly aircraft crashes common in mountainous Nepal
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Mountainous Nepal, where at least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a plane crashed in the tourist town of Pokhara, has a history of deadly air crashes. FEB. 27, 2019A helicopter crashed in bad weather in eastern Nepal, killing all seven people on board, including the tourism minister. FEB. 26, 2016Two people were feared dead after a small plane crashed in western Nepal's Kalikot district. DEC. 16, 2010A small plane crashed in the Himalayan foothills of remote east Nepal, killing all 22 people onboard. JULY 27, 2000A Twin Otter passenger plane crashed in western Nepal on Thursday, killing all 25 people on board.

☆ Video shows passenger plane that crashed in Nepal flying low over a populated area before spinning sharply. At least 44 reported killed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

At least 44 people have died after a plane crashed near an airport in central Nepal. 72 people were on board the Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu. The plane is between two hills near the Pokhara airport, making it difficult for rescue workers to work. The Yeti Airlines flight from the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu crashed on landing, with videos on social media showing the aircraft spinning sharply just before it hit the ground. At least 309 people have died since 2000 in plane or helicopter crashes in the mountainous nation of the Himalayas, Reuters report.

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