Yeti Airlines Flight 691 is still under investigation with no major findings yet. On 15 January, the flight crashed into a gorge while taking off on its final approach to the runway of the newly inaugurated Pokhara International Airport in Nepal. The accident was so painful that all 72 people on board died. Actually, it is being said to be the worst plane crash in Nepal in the last 30 years. Now, Nepal’s investigative authorities have requested Singapore’s Ministry of Transport to obtain the black box of the aircraft and analyze it to help in further investigation.
The Ministry of Transport’s (MoT) Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) will help retrieve and read data from the aircraft’s flight recorders, an MoT spokesman said in a statement on Thursday. The analysis will be performed at TSIB’s Flight Recorder Readout Facility, which was established in 2007.
“All investigation-related information, including the progress and findings of the investigation, will be handled by the Nepalese Investigative Authority,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying by the Straits Times.
Flight recorders, or black boxes, capture information about a flight such as instrument warnings and audio recordings and help piece together the events leading up to an incident. According to a Washington Post report, the Nepalese investigative team will leave for Singapore on Friday with the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. The Kathmandu Post said on Wednesday that the examination of the black box is expected to take a week and will be free.
The investigation of the Singapore boxes is under an MOT and Nepal’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation had signed an MoU in February 2020 to cooperate in the investigation of the plane crash. “The MOU covers the use of investigation facilities and equipment including flight recorder readout facility, training and observer engagements,” said the MOT spokesperson.
With inputs from PTI