I can think of better ways to make a living than flying in Nepal.Cleaning the outside windows at the World Trade Center comes quickly to mind.
That ain’t no crop duster. Banking hard at slow speed? Not enough lift and stalled?
I hope she didn’t have any kids who wanted to be a pilot.
Is this a little too much coincidence? I do not know the lady or her state of mind, interesting that she and her husband died on decent to land.
The ATR 72 600 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner has been involved in 66 aviation accidents and incidents including 39 hull losses, resulting in 440 fatalities since its inception in 2007.
Interesting point is that the aircraft is capable of flying for around 2 hours with only one engine performing. So this could most likely by pilot error with an instructor in the left hand seat.
There was a call from the aircraft according to the article, and another I found, that said the pilot was requesting a runway change in what appears to be downwind position. The reason was not identified where I can find it discussed.
There are current orders for 50 of these aircraft from FEDEX for their US based fleet.
Wy69
Woman driver.
Nepal's version of the Kennedy family......
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.