The official claimed that visibility was very good
The authorities are looking for the causes of the crash of the Yeti Airlines ATR 72 in Nepal and the identification of the black boxes.
The pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report “anything strange” as the plane approached the airport, an official told the BBC.
Anup Joshi argued that “the mountains were clear and the visibility was good”adding that there was a light wind though “no problem with the weather.”
At the same time, it said that the pilot requested a change from the designated runway 3 to runway 1, which was granted by the airport.
“We can operate from both corridors. It was “unfortunate” that the incident happened just 15 days after the airport reopened,” Anup Joshi added.
The plane that crashed had 57 Nepalese nationals, 5 Indian nationals, 4 Russian nationals, 2 South Korean nationals and 1 each from Argentina, Ireland, Australia and France on board. None of the people on board were rescued alive while hopes are fading that the missing people will be found alive.
It is the second deadliest crash in the country’s history, behind only September 1992, when a Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A300 with 167 people on board was killed when it crashed on approach to Kathmandu airport.
A national mourning was declared in the Asian country today.
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