Nepal ATR 72 Crash.

[jpilot77]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic ... Nepal.html

68 out of 72 onboard didn’t survive.

[Eric Janson]

From Avherald:-

https://avherald.com/h?article=503c63e9&opt=0

Says they are looking for the 4 occupants who are unaccounted for.

[Meatservo]

The little video clip makes it look like it stalled.

[Inverted2]

https://twitter.com/ShaunakCy/status/16 ... =ShaunakCy

[rigpiggy]

https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/15/nepal-pl ... l-moments/

[rigpiggy]

Any ATR guys on here able to tell flap setting from the vid?

[rando]

Ok what the heck. TMZ video . NSFL

Not sure why they would post that kind of content!

[CL-Skadoo!]

That’s definitely something I would expect from TMZ and of course I clicked on it so I am no better

[mmm...bacon]

certainly looks like a stall/spin incident? Poor f@ckers on the inflight video..

[teh_flyguy]

Looks like flaps 15. What's more interesting is the Flightradar24 archive shows thier altitude skyrocket to 100,000', so I'm guessing there was an ADC issue and they flew it into the stall with unreliable info. If the airplane thought it was at 100000' static pressure, the overspeed would be going off at any airspeed, and indicated data would be horribly innaccurate. Likely a lot of confusion in the cockpit

[rigpiggy]

I had guys in the sim last week. I beat them up in unusual attitudes and uprt. Unreliable airspeed, pick a known attitude, and power for configuration and return to airport. Showed the trace within -5 to +15 of required airspeed. More SIM training coming up.

[boeingboy]

Well - they certainly stalled......

New info out today. From AVherald:

On Feb 6th 2023 Nepal's AIC reported that both flight data and cockpit voice recorders were successfully read out in Singapore. According to first analysis of the flight data recorders both propellers of the aircraft went into the feather position. The reason for the feathering of both propellers is still being determined, human factors as well as technical factors are still under investigation.

[J31]

Link to avharold https://avherald.com/h?article=503c63e9&opt=7680

[Rooster69]

I have a couple of friends who had FOs pull the props in to feather instead of pushing them in to fine. Brain farts.

[FL030]

I have a couple of friends who had FOs pull the props in to feather instead of pushing them in to fine. Brain farts.

That was my first thought too. Isn't that what happened to the Basler that ended up in the lake in Fort Hope? Or maybe that time it was the condition levers.