The Nepal air disaster on Sunday morning continues to attract global attention.
So far, rescue teams have found 69 bodies in a canyon near Pokhara International Airport, with the remaining 3 still missing. Given the brutality of the scene, it is unlikely that they would still be alive.
Captain Camorra KC's body was found and identified.
He has worked for Nepal Yeti Air for many years, with more than 21,900 hours of flying experience, and at the time of the accident he was the chief pilot of Flight 691.
The body of co-pilot Anju Kadiwada has not been identified and may have been mixed with the passengers.
She has 6,400 hours of flying experience and is responsible for assisting Camorra in flying aircraft.
(Anju Kadiwada)
Over the past few years, the duo has been responsible for the popular tourist route from Kathmandu to Pokhara without incident. Until this time, Nepal suffered the deadliest air crash in 30 years.
It's an accident, and it's a terrible coincidence.
Because the media found out that the husband of the co-pilot Anju was also the co-pilot of the plane, and he also died in the plane crash...
Anjou's husband, Deepak Pokrel, used to be a pilot for Nepal's military helicopters. After being discharged from the army for various reasons, he joined Snowman Airlines as a co-pilot of a civilian aircraft.
Deepak loves the job and dreams of becoming a captain and taking full responsibility for the aircraft.
At that time, Anju was a medical worker, she did not know anything about airplanes, but supported her husband in pursuing his dreams. She helped raise money to enroll her husband in pilot training and cheered him up on his plane.
The two have a daughter, belong to a middle-class family in Nepal, and live a simple and happy life.
But that happiness was shattered in 2006.
In June of that year, Deepak and his captain flew a DHC-6 twin otter transport plane to the western city of Jumla to deliver rice. While approaching the runway, the plane suddenly crashed, killing all nine people on board.
That air crash once again proved that flying an aircraft in Nepal is a high-risk industry.
However, just when everyone was afraid and sad, Anju made an unexpected decision...
She wants to quit her job in the hospital, pursue her dream for her late husband, and become a good pilot!
The family thought Anzhu was crazy. From the medical industry to the aviation industry, this career change span is too large, she has no experience, may not have talent, how to ensure her career success?
Moreover, Anju's daughter is only 6 years old, after her father dies, her mother is all she has, how to take children as a pilot?
Even if it succeeds, flying in Nepal is too dangerous, so why not do something more secure?
Faced with the strong opposition of her family, Anzhu was unmoved, and she was determined to realize her husband's dream.
After quitting her job, she gave her daughter to her parents to raise, and then took out the insurance money she received after her husband's death and used it as pilot training expenses.
Since he wanted to learn, he learned the best, and Anju enrolled in the American pilot course and went to study in a distant foreign country.
An Zhu's father's friend told the media that when Anju applied for a US visa, he said this to the visa officer:
"I just wanted to put on a white uniform like my husband and be a pilot."
After studying in the United States for four years, Anjoo graduated and returned to Nepal to join Yeti Airlines, where her husband worked. She made a successful career change, becoming one of only six female pilots at the company.
Her persistence has changed the perception of many people, and relatives and friends appreciate her.
"She is the kind of woman who is determined to cling to her dreams and also fulfilling her husband's dreams." Relative Santosh Sharma said.
Sudashan Bataula, a spokeswoman for Yeti Airways, said: "She is a brave, amazing woman. She is a full-fledged pilot in our company and has flown solo. ”
Anju later remarried and had a second child. Instead of stopping her flying career, she worked harder, and friends said she loved flying from the bottom of her heart.
Over the years, Anju has been flying for 12 years, accumulating 6,400 flight hours. At this time, the length has reached the threshold of becoming a captain, and some media reports say that if Flight 691 does not have an accident, she will soon be promoted as originally planned.
But the reality is so cruel, like a black joke,
In the same company, in the same position, Anju and her husband both died in the plane crash, and both had accidents when the plane was about to land.
Nepalese netizens retweeted her photos and mourned her online.
An anonymous colleague said that Anju was very responsible, did things in a well-behaved manner, and did not understand why something happened. And she had already flown Pokhara that day, and there was no hand birth.
Yesterday, mainstream media reported that Flight 691 lost contact with the airport 20 minutes after takeoff.
But Pokhara International Airport explained today that their air traffic control tower had been in contact with the plane, and Anju and Camora did not say anything out of the ordinary.
"The accident occurred about 2 meters from the airport, and it took 15 to 20 seconds to land." Sudashan Bataula said, "When the plane approached the airport, they did not report anything bad and the airport approved them to land. ”
Airport spokesman Arnapp Josh said the weather was not an issue, "It was clear in the mountains, visibility was good and the wind was small." The weather is normal. ”
One thing that is strange is that a few minutes before the plane lands, the captain asks for a change of runway.
"We approved. Whenever the pilot asks, we approve it, without asking why. We allow them to adapt. ”
The specific cause of the crash depends on the black box. But some experienced pilots say the problem is the stall.
Airplanes can fly because the wings generate lift. When the angle of attack (the angle between the chord and the free flow) of the wing reaches a critical value, the lift generated by the wing suddenly decreases, the height of the aircraft decreases rapidly, and the fuselage is bumpy and difficult to handle.
This is stall. If the plane is in high altitude, the pilot can also adjust in time, but at low altitude, if there is not enough altitude to return to normal, the plane will fall directly and the plane will be destroyed and killed.
Amit Singh, an Indian pilot, said that according to video taken by witnesses, the nose of Flight 691 was raised and then the left wing tilted downward, indicating that the plane may have stalled.
"You can see that the nose of the plane is facing up, and the nose is generally associated with slower speed. When an aircraft stalls, one wing faces down. Because the wing is used to generate lift, this results in less airflow passing through it, which is not enough lift to keep the aircraft flying in the air. The wings turned down more violently, and the plane fell. ”
Aviation expert Ron Butts said on television that landing planes in Nepal was difficult because the whole country is located at a particularly high altitude in the foothills of the Himalayas, which makes the air thin.
"If the plane can't maintain the speed it should, relying on that thin bit of air can easily cause the plane to stall." Nepal has so many mountains and valleys, sometimes pilots need to fly visually, which increases the risk of accidents. ”
Some pilots believe that the ATR 72-500 aircraft used by Snowman Airlines needs a back pot, and this model is not easy to use at all.
"This kind of aircraft is extremely cold, and it requires a lot of your flying skills. If you're not good at technology and you're not familiar with terrain and wind speed, it's not surprising that something goes wrong. ”
ATR Aircraft said the plane that crashed Sunday was 15 years old and had been used by India's Kingfisher Air and Thailand's Nok Air. In 2019, Snowman Air bought it, and the transponder in it is very old and the information provided is not reliable.
ATR does not believe that it is the reason for the aircraft itself, suggesting that the airline is too critical and reluctant to replace it with a new one.
The quarrel between all parties depends on the investigation committee organized by the Nepalese government.
The Commission had more than a month to come up with a result that whether it was aircraft failure, human error, or even bird strikes, it was acceptable.
For the families of the victims, the reason is not the most important thing, the result is.
Hundreds of family members gathered in front of the hospital to collect the bodies, lighting candles and incense and mourning in silence.
Among them, there may also be Anju's family, perhaps they had foreseen such an outcome many years ago, but could not prevent it.
I don't know if Anzhu regretted it at the moment before he died,
But at least for the past ten years, she has lived the life of her dreams ...