Fatal Nepal plane crash was a case of ‘aerodynamic stall’



Sky News Aviation Expert Captain Byron Bailey says the Nepal plane crash that left 68 people dead was due to it flying “too slow”.

“It is a case of aerodynamic stall, that the pilots obviously didn’t mean to happen but they did,” Mr Bailey said.

“The aeroplanes are fine, it’s just the pilots got to be a little bit sharper I think on what they’re doing because the approaches are very demanding.”

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22 thoughts on “Fatal Nepal plane crash was a case of ‘aerodynamic stall’”

  1. What this gentleman says makes sense. In addition, it appears the pilots were in a nose high configuration, possibly trying to transition from the 6 degree approach to the 3 degree approach.

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  2. Tell you one point! It seems to be a fire of left over debris and vegetation was mentioned in one early report. It could only had minimal dregs of 45 minute reserve, so the plane could been out of fuel. A common problem of airline company expense calculations.
    There is not any engine vibration and seems gliding, neither were the people strapped in in crash position.
    However, there "seems to be engine noise perhaps!" with the ground video of the crash, if so, then the turbines could been too old and "burned out non serviceable for power" . The internal plane video however, is extremely quiet and no vibration.

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  3. Interesting how the Australian media tried so hard to blame the helicopter at SeaWorld for obvious pilot negligence leading to fatalities, as confirmed by footage from the cockpit. That is despite a 25 year perfect safety record operating those model helicopters all around the world.

    But when it comes to another country, they're happy to blame the pilot without any evidence.

    Australian media treats world news like a football game. Team Australia must be protected at all times, everyone else gets thrown under a bus.

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  4. if that plane was fully functional then those passengers were killed by the pilots. beautiful flying weather that day. perfect visibility. absolutely no excuse for a stall in perfect conditions with a functional airplane.

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  5. One thing that is suspicious is how this plane was full of people, I believe 72 is the max number for the atr so maybe this potentially might have somewhat caused a stall initiated by a simple pilot error

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  6. You should ask these "experts" what causes the stall, you can clearly see there is no landing flaps deployed and was going way too slow and lost lift bcoz the flaps were not deployed as they should be to increase lift during landing/takeoff.

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