11 experts in the team
There are a total of 11 foreign experts, including four from the Bureau of Inquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA), an agency of the French government responsible for the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents. Similarly, six aircraft manufacturers are from ATR, a Franco-Italian joint venture headquartered in Blagnac, France and one specialist is from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the body of the European Union (EU) responsible for civil aviation safety. is an agency.
black box recovered
He traveled to Pokhara on Tuesday evening and was accompanied by an 11-member Nepalese team, five of whom were from the commission of inquiry set up by the Nepal government. Budhi Sagar Lamichhane, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, said experts will support the Nepal investigation team. According to him, the commission has received both the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (FDR). According to Lamichhane, we will examine the CVR in Kathmandu while the FDR will be sent abroad as we do not have the facility to examine the recordings here. We haven’t decided yet which country we should send FDR to.
71 bodies recovered
Foreign experts will make safety recommendations based on what they learn from those investigations, Lamichhane said. Lamichhane is the member secretary of the government-led probe committee. The expert team will inspect the spot and discuss with the flight officials to find out the cause of the accident. This is the first time that an ATR aircraft has crashed in Nepal.
After the plane crash, the government has constituted a five-member accident investigation commission under the coordination of former secretary Nagendra Ghimire. The voice recorder will be analyzed locally, but the flight data recorder will be sent to France, said Jagannath Niraula, spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. 71 bodies have been recovered from the crash site so far. One is still missing.
Plane fell on the banks of Seti river
When the plane was about to land at Pokhara International Airport, it fell into a cliff in the famous Seti River. According to aviation experts, two experienced pilots were flying the plane and there was no problem of weather and technical issues. Experts in Kathmandu have said that the crash was a terrible disaster as the plane went down in clear weather for no apparent reason. The passengers were three infants, three children and 62 adults. According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, the passengers included 53 Nepalese, five Indians, four Russians, one Irish, one Australian, one Argentinian, two Koreans and one French.