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An plane that crashed in Nepal final month, killing 71 individuals on board, had no thrust movement in its engines within the last leg of its descent.
A government-appointed panel investigating the accident mentioned this on Monday.
The aircraft crashed simply earlier than touchdown within the vacationer metropolis of Pokhra on January 15, in one among Nepal’s worst airplane accidents in 30 years.
There have been 72 passengers on the twin-engine ATR 72 plane operated by Nepal’s Yeti Airlines, together with two infants, 4 crew members and 10 overseas nationals.
Rescuers recovered 71 our bodies, with one unaccounted particular person presumed to be useless.
Analysis of the cockpit voice recorder and flight knowledge recorder confirmed the propellers of each engines went into “feather in the base leg of descending,” the panel mentioned in an announcement.
Aviation professional Okay.B. Limbu mentioned propellers going into feather meant there was “no thrust” within the engine, or that it didn’t produce any energy.
