ATR 72-500 crashes in Nepal with 72 people on board

[UnofficialDevil]

Man this video is chilling, if you are afraid of flights don't watch.

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https://www.airdatanews.com/atr-72-500-crashes-in-nepal-with-72-people-on-board/

 

[Raoul]

That's pretty grim.

 

[MuFc_1992]

That's pretty grim.

What happens in that video? I'm too scared to watch

 

[Raoul]

What happens in that video? I'm too scared to watch

It looks like someone was video-ing the flight from inside the cabin when it crashed.

 

[Shane88]

What happens in that video? I'm too scared to watch

From regular chatting between friends to screaming as the plane goes down to silence and flames flickering over the camera all in the space of a few seconds. Honestly one of the most haunting things I've seen on the internet.

 

[MuFc_1992]

From regular chatting between friends to screaming as the plane goes down to silence and flames flickering over the camera all in the space of a few seconds. Honestly one of the most haunting things I've seen on the internet.

I've been closely following the developments regarding this since yesterday but I don't think I have enough stomach to watch that. I'm from Nepal and plane crashes are way too common here. I remember there being around 3-4 crash in a single calendar year once.

 

[nimic]

You couldn't force me to watch that at gunpoint. Just knowing about it is bad enough.

 

[RedDevilQuebecois]

I had to muster enough courage to watch it, and.. 'kin 'ell.

I only hope that video will help the investigators.

 

[Tarrou]

awful to watch, the one tiny consolation for their relatives is it was really quick between when they realised they were about to crash and the crash

just a few seconds and presumably they died instantly

 

[mu4c_20le]

Seeing the fire at the end makes it eery as feck

The one in the link is safer to watch, just shows it banking hard.

 

[adexkola]

fecking hell. Combusts in a second.

 

[Jippy]

awful to watch, the one tiny consolation for their relatives is it was really quick between when they realised they were about to crash and the crash

just a few seconds and presumably they died instantly

Yeah that's weird. I'd always envisaged an awful long period when you know the flight is doomed and is going down for a minute or more, with everyone terrified. The speed of that one is one very miniscule consolation.

 

[MDFC Manager]

From regular chatting between friends to screaming as the plane goes down to silence and flames flickering over the camera all in the space of a few seconds. Honestly one of the most haunting things I've seen on the internet.

Was a Facebook live broadcast apparently. Imagine some of their friends and family were watching it, watching them die... Awful

At the start of the video one of them says something like "this is a lot of fun"

 

[hobbers]

Very weird crash to watch.

Can only think all the flaps malfunctioned at the same time, or the pilot did it on purpose.

 

[Sky1981]

is the vids real? was it tampered or edited?

 

[Shakesy]

It happened so fast! And that one burning... seat?... at the end, engulfed in flames... Gawdamnit

 

[Heardy]

The only saving grace - it happened super super quick. The passengers went from chatting and it was all over in a couple of second.

Poor souls - the only comfort is they had very very little time to comprehend what was happening.

 

[André Dominguez]

ATR 72 is a very reliable plane, which is strange. I see the plane was doing a left turn, maybe too much angle?

 

[andy0]

ATR 72 is a very reliable plane, which is strange. I see the plane was doing a left turn, maybe too much angle?

The nose looks high on the straight part of the flight, so speed low, and the wing drop may be involuntary as it stalls, rather than turning deliberately at that moment, and then there isn't enough height margin to recover.

It seems that the approach to that runway (12) at the new airport involves flying over the old airport, on a slightly doglegged approach using a navigation aid on the old airport.

However, it is reported that this aircraft had asked for a change from 30 to 12, and it may have been doing a circuit on the north side, a base leg roughly in line with the old airport, then a left turn would have been coming up.

(Elsewhere, some people have checked landmarks in that video, such as a stadium, against maps satellite view)

One or two people speculated they may have been trying to land at the old airport by mistake, and realised a bit late. This seems unlikely, given the height at that point, and they'd asked to change runways on the new airport, and had already arrived there a couple of times earlier in the day

A dreadful event, and horrifically enhanced for the people who were seeing the video live

The flight data recorder (sometimes nicknamed black box) and cockpit voice recorder will help the investigators.

 

[André Dominguez]

The nose looks high on the straight part of the flight, so speed low, and the wing drop may be involuntary as it stalls, rather than turning deliberately at that moment, and then there isn't enough height margin to recover.

It seems that the approach to that runway (12) at the new airport involves flying over the old airport, on a slightly doglegged approach using a navigation aid on the old airport.

However, it is reported that this aircraft had asked for a change from 30 to 12, and it may have been doing a circuit on the north side, a base leg roughly in line with the old airport, then a left turn would have been coming up.

(Elsewhere, some people have checked landmarks in that video, such as a stadium, against maps satellite view)

One or two people speculated they may have been trying to land at the old airport by mistake, and realised a bit late. This seems unlikely, given the height at that point, and they'd asked to change runways on the new airport, and had already arrived there a couple of times earlier in the day

A dreadful event, and horrifically enhanced for the people who were seeing the video live

The flight data recorder (sometimes nicknamed black box) and cockpit voice recorder will help the investigators.

Thanks for the more detailed insight. Much more sense with your explanation. Is the video where the plane looks to have an engine on fire legit or deep fake?

 

[calodo2003]

That was eerie.

 

[andy0]

Thanks for the more detailed insight. Much more sense with your explanation. Is the video where the plane looks to have an engine on fire legit or deep fake?

The video from inside, in the OP, ends with flames after the crash, but I don't think you mean that.

The video on several news websites, including BBC, taken by someone on a landing or balcony, it comes toward them and the camera turns downwards, has no obvious flames

Someone on another forum did look at that one frame by frame, and wondered if he saw some smoke behind one engine just as the aircraft is about to disappear behind the roof soffit, but didn't mention fire.

It may turn out to have an engine fault, but at this stage it will be too early to tell, until the black box is looked at. Even then, a fault on one engine is survivable and has defined procedures for dealing with it, so if it's that there will be other factor(s) too

 

[Moby]

Horrible. That recording of fire coming on is insanely scary.

 

[Siorac]

But... who uploaded that video to Twitter? Like did they just find someone's phone and decided to post it?

 

[andy0]

But... who uploaded that video to Twitter? Like did they just find someone's phone and decided to post it?

lt seems to be that it was being live streamed by the phone owner to family or friends, which has to be ghastly for them

Just finding the phone and posting it would seem very improbable, given that all that stuff would be in the hands of police and investigators, so it may have been seen by some as a bit suspect to start with, even though the passing landscape tallies.

But in a discussion elsewhere someone said later that police and relatives had confirmed it. I haven't checked that myself, but I'll accept it

 

[Amar__]

Ending so quickly in flames everywhere in basically few seconds after losing the control is ridiculous.

Edit: Watching that video from the airdatanews link, it looks like he is going really slow and taking a big turn for such a plane.

 

[mu4c_20le]

But... who uploaded that video to Twitter? Like did they just find someone's phone and decided to post it?

Was on facebook live and went viral. Assume the phone melted in the end of the clip there.

 

[100]

That video is both chilling and slightly comforting that they became aware so late

 

[TheReligion]

Absolutely horrendous.

The only survivor was one of the pilots right?

Hopefully they’ll be able to shed some light on to what happened along with the download.

 

[Offside]

Nepal must be the least safe country when it comes to aviation?

 

[Solius]

Nepal must be the least safe country when it comes to aviation?

They’re not allowed to operate in Europe because of it.

 

[hodgey123]

Watched that video and wish I hadn't.

How can it be that they did not realise they were crashing until seconds before? Do you think the pilot was aware? The descent to landing looked quite smooth to a layman rather than shaking crazily or anything else you 'expect' from a crash?

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Time has a pretty good article on the crash.

https://time.com/6247492/nepal-plane-crash-rescue/

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Watched that video and wish I hadn't.

How can it be that they did not realise they were crashing until seconds before? Do you think the pilot was aware? The descent to landing looked quite smooth to a layman rather than shaking crazily or anything else you 'expect' from a crash?

If the plane stalled then everything bad happens pretty fast.

 

[andy0]

Thanks for the more detailed insight. Much more sense with your explanation. Is the video where the plane looks to have an engine on fire legit or deep fake?

If that video has the right engine on fire, right wing down and wings nearly vertical, it's probably from a crash in Russia in 2021

 

[hobbers]

It's obvious from the internal video that there's no fire. Both engines are apparently fine. Else obviously the cabin wouldnt have been so chilled.

 

[hodgey123]

It's obvious from the internal video that there's no fire. Both engines are apparently fine. Else obviously the cabin wouldnt have been so chilled.

Is the video posted at the start of this thread not real then?

 

[VeevaVee]

There’s no fire on the video that shows the plane. A pilot on Reddit said it looks like a stall where one side goes first, hence banking over wildly

 

[hobbers]

Is the video posted at the start of this thread not real then?

Why would it not be real? Taken from a live stream that was already verified by the victims family.

When I say no fire I mean before crashing or that caused the crash, just in case that wasn't obvious.

 

[Swedish_Plumber]

There’s no fire on the video that shows the plane. A pilot on Reddit said it looks like a stall where one side goes first, hence banking over wildly

How does a stall happen? This shit terrifies me.