{"id":1766,"date":"2023-01-15T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T13:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationnews-inetrnational.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2023-01-15T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T13:10:17","slug":"nepal-plane-crash-what-aircraft-was-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviation-news.info\/?p=1766","title":{"rendered":"Nepal plane crash: What aircraft was it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Nepal suffered its worst air crash in three decades today when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara killing 68 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeti Airlines&#8217; 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu&#8217;s Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN). While landing at the Pokhara airport around 11:00am, the aircraft crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Kathmandu-Pokhara flight takes around 25 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yeti spokesman Sudarshan Bartaula told AFP that among those on board &#8212; 68 passengers and four crew &#8212; were 15 foreigners including five Indians, four Russians and two Koreans. The rest were Nepalis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The twin-engine ATR 72 aircraft was 15 years old equipped with an old transponder with unreliable data, as per multiple reports. Manufactured by a joint venture of Airbus and Italy&#8217;s Leonardo, the ATR 72 is a widely used twin-engine turboprop plane. There are six such planes in Yeti Airlines&#8217; fleet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Yeti Airlines flight 9N-ANC ATR-72 was on its third sortie since today morning. It first flew from Kathmandu to Pokhara and back to Kathmandu earlier in the day, Hindustan Times reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gyanendra Bhul, information officer at the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said weather was not a problem, preliminary information has been received that the plane crashed due to technical reasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nepal&#8217;s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its airspace over safety concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal suffered its worst air crash in three decades today when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara killing 68 people. 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