Nepalese authorities have recovered flight recorders from a plane crash that killed 69 people, a key step in their probe into what brought down the Yeti Airlines flight.
Brig. Gen. Krishna Prasad Bhandari, the spokesman for the Nepalese army, said search teams located the black box of flight YT-691 on Monday, a day after it crashed into the gorge of the Seti River as it was approaching the international airport at Pokhara, Nepal’s second-most-populous city after Kathmandu.
The black box, Gen. Bhandari said, contained the cockpit-voice recorder and the flight-data recorder, which can document information on how aircraft systems performed. Both devices, the official added, have been sent to Nepal’s civil-aviation authority for analysis.
A flight-data recorder typically holds thousands of bits of data and generally is one of the best sources of information for accident investigators to determine exactly what happened onboard. Investigators usually correlate the data with information from the cockpit-voice recorder as part of a crash probe.
Search and recovery workers also recovered another body from the wreckage on Monday, leaving three people unaccounted for, Gen. Bhandari said. The civil-aviation authority said it had a team at the site of the crash that had identified the remains of 41 people.
The passenger list included 53 Nepalese, five Indians, four Russians, two South Koreans, and one each from Australia, Argentina, France and Ireland, it said.
The crash has shocked the landlocked Himalayan nation. Nepal’s government in Kathmandu declared a national day of mourning on Monday and formed a five-member probe committee of retired government officials and air-safety experts to ascertain the cause of the crash and give recommendations to avoid such an incident in the future, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said. The probe…
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