According to local media reports in Nepal, on the morning of the 15th local time, an ATR 7 passenger plane of Nepal Snowman Airlines flew from Kathmandu to Pokhara and crashed in the Pokrakasski district, with a total of 68 passengers and 4 crew members on board, and all 72 people are currently killed.
Are there any Chinese on the plane?
Nepal borders Tibet, and there are still many Chinese in Nepal, especially Kathmandu and Pokhara, but the staff of the Chinese Embassy in Nepal said that as of 12:40 local time, no Chinese was found in the accident, and the hanging heart was finally steady.
ATR's past and present
ATR is a joint venture aircraft manufacturer between France and Italy, founded in 1981, starting with the research and development and manufacture of twin-engine turboprop regional aircraft, with deep technical heritage, ATR42 and ATR72 aircraft as the company's main products, carrying 64~74 passengers, with a range of about 1650 kilometers. ATR aircraft can reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by 40% compared to jet aircraft, can adapt to harsh natural environment and runway conditions, and good fuel efficiency and operational capability make ATR the best model for providing regional connections.
However, considering the reasons of passenger comfort and flight speed, regional passenger aircraft in the civil aircraft market tend to be jetized, turboprops have become a thing of the past, and with the rise of Boeing and Airbus, ATR has gradually developed the freighter market. ART is currently operating in Japan, India, Iran, Nepal, and Taiwan.
ATR has had 46 accidents in its history, crashing and making 12 landings, resulting in 398 deaths. Among them, the most accidents were in Taiwan, China, with 4 plane crashes and 97 deaths.
Is the ATR back pot for this crash?
Let's first popularize the country of Nepal. Nepal is a snowy Buddha country, a living fossil of human cultural heritage, and it is still polygamous, 360 days a year is celebrated 360 days a year, you heard it right, Nepal is such a Buddhist lineage.
Surrounded by the Himalayas, Nepal mainly relies on aircraft to transport passengers and cargo, and ATR's advantage lies in short takeoffs and landings to fully meet the needs of Nepal's remote mountainous areas. However, the lack of infrastructure to accurately forecast the weather has led to frequent crashes.
The initial reports of the flight showed that the weather was not conducive to landing, and the recent geomagnetic storms did not rule out weather and electromagnetic interference. Don't make judgments when you see ATR72, or wait patiently for further official investigation.
A large inventory of the causes of the crash
Aviation technology has developed to the present, the proportion of air accidents due to hardware and equipment problems has been very low, more due to weather, man-made and other factors caused by tragedies, let's take an inventory of the reasons for the plane crash.
1. Weather. Severe weather conditions such as lightning, heavy rain, typhoons, low visibility and runway icing pose a direct threat to aircraft structures and communication equipment, as well as aircraft takeoff and landing. For example, the Pakistan air crash and the Polish presidential crash were accompanied by dense fog, and the Colombian air disaster was broken into three after the plane was struck by lightning during landing.
In addition, the electromagnetic interference caused by sunspots and the Northern Lights phenomenon is also prone to flight accidents, and electronic products such as mobile phones and laptops also emit electromagnetic waves, which is why airlines prohibit the use of mobile phones during flights.
2. Bird banging. Mixed in the sky, big planes are difficult to defeat small birds. A sparrow weighing 30 g crashed into a high-speed aircraft, and the impact was no less destructive than a bomb. In 1988, an Ethiopian Boeing 737 was climbing to an altitude of 3,800 meters when it was suddenly attacked by Big Bird, killing 85 people on board and injuring 21.
3. Hijacked. On September 11, 2001, 19 Al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four U.S. civilian airliners and deliberately crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, killing 2,993 people.
4. Human error. Human factors are also the main causes of air accidents, such as pilot operation errors, ground crew maintenance errors, pilot communication errors, etc. In 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed, and it was investigated that the captain caused the tragedy to let his 15-year-old son experience flying. In 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 lost control in flight due to irregular replacement of the tail servo and crashed into the icy Atlantic Ocean.
5. Mechanical failure. Mechanical failure is also a very common cause, generally including engine failure, hydraulic failure, fuel tank fire, instrument failure, metal fatigue and other conditions. In July 1996, a TWA Boeing 747 exploded over Long Island due to an electrostatic spark to fuel tanks, killing 230 people. In the 1992 Amsterdam air disaster, 47 people were killed when the engine mount pins broke fatigue and plunged headlong into a residential area.
Do you still dare to fly?
According to the data of recent years, the probability of 10,000 air crashes is about 0.5%, which is a small probability event. If a person lives to be 100 years old and takes a plane once in an average of 3 days, then he only takes 10,000 planes in his life, and the normal probability of 10,000 flights is as high as 99.5%, so there is no need to worry too much about the occurrence of air accidents, and planes are still the safest means of transportation.
Tomorrow and accidents, you never know which comes first, the world is impermanent, cherish the moment.
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