Crashed Nepal Airplane’s Black Field To Be Analysed In Singapore: Report

Kathmandu:

Nepal will ship to Singapore for examination the black field of Yeti Airways that crashed in Pokhara, killing all 72 folks, together with 5 Indians, on board, a senior official mentioned on Wednesday.

Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane, who’s a joint secretary at Nepal’s Tourism Ministry and in addition a member of the probe committee of the air crash, mentioned that three members of the investigation panel can be flying quickly handy over the black field to Singapore’s Transport Security Investigation Bureau.

“Our group is heading in direction of Singapore in a few days carrying the black field,” Lamichhane mentioned, amid experiences that the group would depart on Friday.

Nepal determined to take the black field to Singapore as the 2 international locations have a memorandum of understanding to help within the subject of aviation.

“The examination of the black field in Singapore is freed from price,” Lamichhane was quoted as saying by The Kathmandu Publish newspaper.

The black field accommodates two sorts of recording units – a flight knowledge recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR). It’s probably to present the investigators an perception into the final conversations between the pilots and the aviation management room.

All 72 people– 53 Nepalese passengers, 15 international nationals, together with 5 Indians, and 4 crew members — have been on board the ATR-72 plane when it crashed in a river gorge in Pokhara on January 15.

On Tuesday, Nepal’s well being officers mentioned they’ve handed over 60 our bodies, together with that of 5 Indians, to the family members of the victims.

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