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Co-pilot of doomed Nepal flight lost pilot husband in 2006 plane crash [Training Flight]
NY Post ^ | January 16, 2023 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 01/16/2023 7:38:40 AM PST by BenLurkin

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To: Not_Who_U_Think

**the plane burst into flames before crashing.**

Somebody on that plane that the globulleestas didn’t like?


21 posted on 01/16/2023 8:41:30 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Zuriel

I don’t think the plane burst into flames before crashing. I think the Post got a little confused.


22 posted on 01/16/2023 8:48:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Zuriel

You needed pedal blocks like on a kids first two wheel bike. (Snicker)


23 posted on 01/16/2023 8:55:58 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

Do they still have those Nepalese temple balls in Kathmandu?

I’m thinking Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.


24 posted on 01/16/2023 9:00:27 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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**You needed pedal blocks**

Lol! I’m just glad he knew to practice that approach at 3k feet AGL, especially with his runt of a son at the controls (I finally topped out at 6’1 1/2” at age 20). He and his partners sold that plane when I was 18 and actually getting fairly good at flying it. That was a bummer, but they couldn’t afford to keep it.


25 posted on 01/16/2023 9:20:01 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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Anju Khatiwada, 44, joined Nepal’s Yeti Airlines in 2010, following in the footsteps of her husband, Dipak Pokhrel, who was killed four years prior when the small passenger plane he was piloting for the air carrier crashed minutes before landing.

Nepal's version of the Kennedy family......

26 posted on 01/16/2023 9:21:28 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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...when the small passenger plane he was piloting for the air carrier crashed minutes before landing.

I'd say it was at the exact time of landing.

27 posted on 01/16/2023 9:27:00 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Zuriel

Shame really. But planes are expensive. I took a couple of lessons in my twenties . My oldest son got lessons as part of a HS program. He soloed but when HS ended he never continued.


28 posted on 01/16/2023 10:19:11 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: EVO X

“The flight was landing at a brand new airport that just opened on new years day.”

In looking at the aircraft in the still closer up pics, it looked like there were red flaps at the time the aircraft appeared to start to slide left into a stall. I listened to the narrator and he mentioned the original runway as 30 but that appeared to need a downwind landing.

I think the winds had a lot to do with it. They were flying over the Seti River Gorge area which has a history of wind variations as reported by the Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority in 2019. And if they got a big fluctuation in wind direction or volume it could have caused the aircraft to lose lift and stall which the lifting of the nose displayed. And as said, they were so low, with flaps red and gear green, they couldn’t dip the nose to regain control.

wy69


29 posted on 01/16/2023 11:27:49 AM PST by whitney69
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To: Vaquero

Dad just couldn’t round up enough charter and flight instruction to justify his share. The other two were looking to get out; didn’t need the write off I guess.

If I wasn’t in school, or there wasn’t anything urgent on the farm to do, AND there was room for me on a one way charter, he would take me along. Because he could fold the second row seat down and sleep most of the deadhead leg. He was a busy guy: farming, selling farm machinery, and flying.

Thought I’d be a fighter pilot, but had to start wearing glasses in middle school. The dream was shot down so to speak.


30 posted on 01/16/2023 11:35:51 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: BenLurkin

From the video, it looks like the plane was in a landing configuration and was too slow to bank the wings the way they banked the wings and stalled.

When I was learning to the get my private pilot’s license at the St. Pete/Clearwater International Airport, a Cessna 172 was on final on RW 27 when he was contacted by ATC that he was cleared for RW 22, in order to line up with RW 22, the pilot made a turn at a slow speed, stalled and crashed into the bay, killing the pilot and the passengers. It was a lesson learned about slow flight and that it would be better to engage a go-around then to try a maneuver like that in slow flight.


31 posted on 01/16/2023 1:12:26 PM PST by DMD13
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To: Zuriel

That is what it looked like to me.

The pilots should have engaged a go-around procedure for safety.


32 posted on 01/16/2023 1:13:27 PM PST by DMD13
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To: whitney69

That is good speculation. There are also foothills nearby that could funnel the wind into the gorge.


33 posted on 01/16/2023 1:13:46 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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I mentioned on the site that I grew up in the Visalia/Dinuba area. My very first job to earn money in the summer was flagging for crop dusters out of Green Acres airport off Goshen Avenue. They used stearman, which as you most likley know. are perfect for crop dusting. We only had use of other aircraft when borrowed during maintenance, the usual one being an ag cat borrowed from Tulare.

One of the big advantages of the ag cat over the stearman was the engine was smaller and allowed the pilot to see right in front of him when making a pass. It gave him better sight of the trip concerning trees, standpipes, buildings, and any rises in the land, and, of course, the flaggers. A lot safer.

West of the airport, along a cut out and risen canal for the St. John River, was a bunch of alfalfa fields that needed spraying for years. We were aware of this, but along the river there was a wind area that changed directions and strength and it happened to me once.

The aircraft was down about 5 feet off the ground and I was walking to my next position when the wind suddenly stopped, blew forcefully in the opposite direction then back to original direction. It cause the aircraft to lost lift in the wings it bounced on the gear in the alfalfa and went up over me on the ground and bellied into the alfalfa in the field on the other side of the river. No one hurt, but pilots would not use flaggers for that area after that. Didn’t hurt my feelings.

wy69


34 posted on 01/16/2023 1:47:22 PM PST by whitney69
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The aircraft was down about 5 feet off the ground

I play golf next to a farming area on occasion and I can attest to that. There is no room for error...

35 posted on 01/16/2023 3:11:32 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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“There is no room for error...”

Tack that on to the crazies that also will cut under power lines rather than go over them or cut off and square the line later. I had one guy who ultimately was killed flying that used to have gear down in the alfalfa on his runs. He died when we were working a field that had a couple of large walnut trees in them and after he had lunch, I think he took his asthma medication and just missed and went through the tree rather than over and around it. I think a limb broke his neck and when I got to him, I hit the kill switches, pulled him out, and drug him away dead. Rough day.

wy69


36 posted on 01/16/2023 7:31:06 PM PST by whitney69
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