Crashed: Nepal’s treacherous airspace | DW Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2023
- Nepal is world famous for its breathtaking landscape, its high mountains and snow-covered peaks. It attracts tourists from all over the world, many of them taking part in mountaineering expeditions. As if that wasn’t risky enough, more than 700 people have lost their lives in deadly plane crashes in Nepal over the past three decades. What’s behind this poor air safety record? To get some answers to this question, DW reporter Zobaer Ahmed spoke to experts, victims’ relatives and a representative of the country’s civil aviation authority.
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I am from Nepal, and our biggest problem here is corruption. I lost a good friend of mine during the Sita Air Flight 601 crash in 2013 due to overload. None of the airlines operator, the owners, and the Airport workers have been held accountable yet because these airlines owners are well connected.
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Who cares your corruption ? U shuold slove your problems yourself.
I am so sorry for your lost. 😢
Yikes! I had no idea that it was that bad. 😢
The big problem is the bahuns who are just everywhere and they are the ones the most corrupted .
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Landfill is removed already lol. But sure some birds come there because of habit. But that previous landfill is not on the side of the crash , it's on the normal regular side where no accident have occurred.
I’m from Nepal and I thank DW for showing and presenting such an amazing documentary. Our politicians needs more international pressure. This will somewhat help.
On a side note, Nepalese are hands down the nicest people I have ever met.
Yes, because yeti airlines is a close partner of powerful politician and formal prime minister, K.P Oli. It's because of corruption, corruption is the only transparent thing in Nepal.
No road safety, no airline safety nothing, they are just using common people as their vote bank, and that's all.
You never meet nepali 🤣🤣
@@banishbaral818 How is that related to the ordinary people of Nepal? Don’t be so bitter.
@@nabinneupane3723 I have actually my best friend was Nepalese but she moved back
@@potato1084 yea she moved back ?
Wait? From your life?💀💀
Yeti airlines is currently doing reputation damage control by paying social media influencers to fly with them and post on their stories. Even the civil aviation authority of Nepal recently promoted Yeti indirectly through their page. Heard that they have connections in the government and will most likely not face any action against the crash.
People on social media had started a campaign to informally boycott feti airlines and it had lost a lot of passengers after the crash.
@@abisekmndhr3620 yeah that's the reason Yeti is paying those influencers and giving free tickets to government officials to change general public's perception after the incident.
A free ticket wouldn’t be a bribe or incentive to me.
I‘d not even do it if I was paid.
So why would govt. officials risk their life?
@@anashuddin4850 What A Load aof Bulllshittt, as If Other actors and Sports Player didnt fly in Yeti airlines Before the incident. Yeti and Buddha Are the Main Air Travel For Nepal domestic.
Are the Influencer Ddddummb to fly in Yeti airlines.
but this plane accident was due to co-pilot error.
Strange rules!Nepal is considering to ban hikes without guide for the safety of tourists but the aircraft with which the tourists fly and land can be unsafe.
I am from nepal and I don’t like that tbh but I guess it the government’s plan to bring more money from the foreigners since you have to go through travel agencies or guide thus bringing more money in from the visitors.
Do i like it noo
Do i think its a clever way to get money from foreigners I think so
i was also surprised with that decision. There are some trek routes which require guides and some which don't require as they fairly accessible. maybe there is some shady corruption going behind that decision
Would say more than 95% of local flights passengers are not tourist so they wouldn’t care as it won’t get international attention. Hiking is mostly by tourist and guide = money for Nepali economy .
Because they only care about money, not safety
From a former U.S. airline pilot
...thanks for a well done story.
Copy that roger
from a former isis member that slaughtered a us pilot once, thanks for a well done story!
11 accidents since 2004? .... that airline should be closed ... 😮
So sad for everyone who lost their lives and also very sad for their country as this will make you lose a lot of tourists
R.i. p. Who those lost their life & heartfelt condolences to victims family.
I don't know how could the authority of Yeti airlines dismissed this plane crashed "Just as an accident". I guess he doesn't feel any guilt or whatsoever. The least you can do is show remorse.
I am surprised pieces of the plane are still at the crash site.
The crash site itself is very dangerous 🫤🥺
They loot crash sites normally
i was in Nepal 12 years ago and flew on Yeti airlines to see mount Everest from the plane ….😮 now i wonder how stupid i was but all went ok
It probability had higher chances that you did come out alive barely
Don't use the Domestic airways in Nepal. But if you use roadway than you are more likely to killed because road are also very awesome here.
@@tirmairakihda 🤣🤣🤣
1 crash per year for the last 60 years? It's safe to say nothing will be changing anytime soon.
I don't think Nepal authority doing enough to make this right. Something is wrong there
Good luck for DW documentary channel....👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Love this DW reports always objective and informative.
It doesn't help the fact that the airport is located within a valley of high mountainous terrain. There have been so many crashes that by now you'd think they'd either close or relocate the airport.
You are wrong. This airport doesn't have difficult terrain. In fact, this crash is anomaly in this site.
I have been to beautiful Nepal and flown the now infamous Yeti Air. The airport was a bit like a bus station and the plane was a hollow box, I was petrified even then and said my funeral prayers while on board. In hindsight, it was an even more perilous decision to board it. Thank God I survived to tell the tale.
Wow what a brave soul. You really should be awarded for the bravery you have shown. Hats off.
Yeti operates French and Canadian built planes so that might be why you were so scared
@@aseem7w9 Boeing advertiser spotted😂
@@bhanushreedasray7411 or maybe i could be advertising those new good looking jets China has built >:)
Nepal is blacklisted by E.U due to its safety reasons. Being a nepalese it's true that our sky or road nothing is safe.
I was in Nepal 20 years ago ,,and sad to say this country will never prosper ,,
Rest in peace to the beautiful soul 🙏
Never in it's aviation history of 68 airline crashes and hundreds dead , not a domestic airline has been found guilty of it safety standards in Nepal. Its either bad weather or pilots at fault. So, you know the system is heavily corrupted and I strongly suggest tourists not to trust any domestic airlines in nepal
Lol you are only concerned about tourists lives and not the lives of nepalese? You know that the life of the people in the country that these documentaries are made on matters too right?
@@tunim4354 because we Nepalese know the harsh conditions of our domestic airlines but tourists are completely unaware of below par safety standards of these airlines
"has to work hard to be transparent" a pretty big admission and really sums up Nepal.
4:56 to 5:12 completely wrong translation of the victim's wifes' testimony.
She said a person carries thoughts and dreams, so it would have be better if the authorities thought about their safety and didnt neglect any little things.
DW documentary should hire a good translator .gg.
Translation for western crowd, the same old phrases you can hear those lines in all documentaries like these..
Once i took a flight to Nepal. It was the scariest experience of my life. Since then i can't fly anymore.
The turbulence was so bad i thought we were going to crash. When the pilot was finally trying to land the plane it took two attempts.... The first we hit the run way so hard and bounced right up.
Where did they get there license, the convenient store. Probably just brided the examiner.. to pass..
I am from Nepal ..Nepali people are very very good when if you need and very friendly but political and government are corruption...soon I will leave this country..
Guess I'm not flying any Nepalese airlines anytime soon...
Our fixed wing operating airlines are bad but our helicopter airlines are considered some of the best and safe in the world. Due to high terrain, only the very powerful helicopters available in the world are operated. It plays an essential role in tourism as well as emergency situations. You won't be able to find a helicopter flying at 20 thousand feet anywhere in the world.
Only domestic fixed wing aircrafts service has been considered dangerous but apart from that the international flights is no doubt the safest here too. Better go on helicopters instead.
@@ordersoldier8225 Thai airways flight 311,Pakistan airlines Flight 268,Us Bangla Flight 211.Needless to say more.
@@subashh lmaoo, how many decades have it been of the thai and pak crashes? And the us bangla crash was because of the mental distress in the medically incapable captain who was flying the plane, you can watch the documentary in nat geo. Your statement was pointless.
@@subashh and those are the only international crashes, two being from very early period when there were no radars and technologies in TIA unlike now and the us bangla crash was because of pilots errors.
What they didn’t tell here is that the plane was on its way to Pokhara’s new international airport.
This airport is next to a landfill which ofcourse attracts a lot of birds. This is also the reason the airport was rejected due to safety problems, but obviously some people with higher power didn’t seem to care and opened the airport anyways. 1 week and this happens….
Holy sh!t😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 WTF! Putting an airport close to a landfill is absolutely idiotic! 😫
Bird was def not a prob lol
It was not a birdstrike
Maybe not but this was a good point to be raised still.
Like it matters
People of Nepal are so lovely .
It was so bad day when I heard this crash
From Pakistan
lol pak has so many fraudulent pilots, such that european union banned pia to enter its airspace
Thank you making this video. Iam from Nepal and we all are very much concern about this problem, the main problem is goverment. The ones who must take things seriously they are not doing their work properly.
All stake holders in Nepal have to come together to solve this critical problem, as it affects tourism, travel and the economy very critically! If this is not solved for the long term, the equity of 'brand Nepal' in the world will be badly damaged and it could have a cascading effect on many key aspects of our neighbors! I am an old friend of Nepal, having worked and lived in the beautiful country fr many years. Best wishes and namaskar to all my friend! 🙏
One correction please🔴🔴
Use the New and official map of Nepal
That includes lipuleka and limpiaadhura
Air travel is the safest mode of travel but that does not apply to Nepali airlines , what a pity. Nepali airlines does not go proper safety checks before the flights
3 decades of accidents and the fact that these people still keep getting on flights is shocking
According to a video I saw on the investigation report from the black box it was a co pilot error. The pilot asked the female co pilot to lower the flag to 30 degree from 15 degree but instead of flag the co pilot pulled the condition lever which is next to flag lever. The condition level turns off fuel supplies to engine in case of fire. Unfortunately as the engine had no fuel supply they couldn't generate lift and the plane stalled.
True. And it’s not ‘Flag’. It’s ‘Flap’..
Woman moment
Gtfo! Most crashes are caused by men. It’s not a gender issue.
sehr informativ! lobenswert
Moral of the video : Do not travel Nepal by plane or any air vehicle
I've ridden on one of these tiny planes to go from Kathmandu to Pokhara and LOVED it lol
After so many incidents one wonders if it is really sensible to land in Kathmandu.with so many peaks around and a step approach many pilots loose a sense of terrain awareness.maybe it's good to have a different airport
You're telling me that modern-day planes don't have a system to detect mountains or any other body in front of you?
How many officers was sentenced ( judged ) because mismanagement about overload issues ,?
Is this case expects to happen again according the airlines administrations or aviation agencies in Nepal?
Rest in peace Sabailai 🙏
I travelled 4 times. My heart goes bumpity bumpitee boop when plane lands 😂
@@sirensynapse5603 light mode user detected
If you think the skyes are bad in Nepal... wait till you see the fucking roads... lol
The aviation industry is so corrupt and well connected with politicians in Nepal that the flight accident investigation was done by French and Canadian authorities to get an accurate report. Bad weather and terrain are definitely factors in other crashes but this should tell you something
im from nepal and the problem is that they buy old and used planes from different countries without proper maintenance.
Forget me flying into or out of Kathmandu.i did once in 1998 but that's it.i always go by bus
Nepal's breathtaking landscape and mountains attract tourists and mountaineers, but its air safety record is concerning. With over 700 lives lost in plane crashes in the past three decades, understanding the reasons behind these accidents is crucial. DW reporter Zobaer Ahmed investigates, speaking to experts, victims' families, and representatives from the civil aviation authority. Addressing and improving the air safety issues will not only safeguard lives but also enhance Nepal's reputation as a safe and attractive destination for travelers and adventurers from around the world. Thankyou!
Airlines safety is a very Basic service that a country is to provide.........
A timely cause to raise and intervene for Nepal in current G20 delegation and committees thereof. I suggest this be taken in the G20 summit for Nepal - especially to receive required training, governance, guidance and protocol handling practices be facilitated by alliance countries as part of learning, following the successful aviation policies, procedures and protocols with required regulations and governance.
no one cares about nepal
No mention of Lukla.....
In Nepal avation the biggest problem is putting bussiness first then safety of lives and ofcourse that is link to corruption...more then anything else.
Praying for God's comfort for the beraved family
Maybe poor maintenance or the airport runway built at the wrong location. 🤦🏾♂🤔
We have skilled manpower highly educated, qualified. Something that sets us back is management part and we are not ORGANIZED.
News of plane crashes in Nepal makes me scared about crashes in my country, India. I wonder to what extent industry standards are upheld here and how much is plain jugaad
I have nothing but admiration for the Nepali people and long overdue a fourth visit into the country... but traveling of any sorts out there is not for the feint hearted!
Nepal is still developing and all these are part of growing up.. it will become better.. they just need to learn and implement the lessons learnt..
I live in Europe. The EU has banned all Nepalese carriers. That means that those carriers suck. 😫😫😫😫
When America banned anything, you can say politically motivated, but when Europe blocks anything, it has to be seriously and one must take appropriate action resolve it
@@VoiceBootcampInc , exactly!
@@VoiceBootcampIncThat is often the case. US is greedy.
Majority of aircrash are due to pilot's negligence. Terrain is difficult and weather is unpredictable, pilot's miscalculations in those time's have caused the majority of crashes . Newer aircrafts won't help , what Nepal needs is radars . Two international aircrafts crashed at hills during approach in TIA , Kathmandu but after the radars were kept there hasn't been an accident of that nature . Corruption , Negligence is also responsible for many crashes but always blaming it on corruption is not the answer .
I'm done flying domestically in Nepal (I visit at least once a year for an extended period). I never thought such a crash could happen in Pokhara (and let's face it, it was most likely pilot error that the blades were in the "feathered" position providing no torque at all).
Torque doesn't come from the propeller blades, it comes from the engine. You meant to say "thrust". It was probably pilot error like you said. It doesn't make sense that the props would be feathered and the engines pulled all the way back to idle speed. "Feathering" propellers in the air is done when the engines fail, to reduce drag. It's weird that the report says the engines were producing 0% torque, yet also say that the engine was idling. If the engine is idling it cannot possibly be 0% torque. It just smells fishy.
@@youngeshmoney It does and it doesn’t help that the pilot’s spouse also died piloting in a plane crash years before. It’s a little suspicious.
Eu has given recomendation long time ago of dividing regulation and service providor. Now its same, so they dont need to be afraid of any checking. Once you devide these it will be better
Yeah, it has fucking high mountains with runways where generally runways shouldn't even be, treacherous weather, plus it's one of the poorest countries of the world and quite corrupt too, so maintenance , procedures and pilot training are probably not up to western standards. The perfect storm. When I traveled back from Kathmandu to Germany 10 years ago, they didn't even seriously control the luggage. They ran it through the scanner but didn't even look at the images.
It’s /YETI Airlines/ and /TARA Air/.
Now besides that, wouldn’t airlines have an own interest in a safe operation?
Ever crash would cost them business I would assume.
I personally would not fly in Nepal, not even to Lukla where the other option appears to be a days long trekking trip.
Scary 😦 as a tourist that want visit from America I will stay away now
Mountains?
They can put LED bright red blinking lights on all hill tops, airports and different new technologies to use with monetary exchange earned by Tourism. Also main thing greed behind disasters
Expecting private businesses to put anything above profits is a fool's errand. What is the primary objective of a private business/company? To make money, to profit and benefit the owners and shareholders financially. To that end, how can anyone expect the companies to then put safety, or anything else for that matter, above making money? If the people at the top think they can get away with something, don't think for one second that they would not cut a corner just to make an extra buck. This is, sadly, the world that we live in.
Someone should be responsible for so many accidents. I for one always avoid flying within Nepal.
All say planes are old, it's brand new only 15 years. Most crashes in this part of world are due to pilot error or CFIT. There are very few crashes involving failure regarding maintainance and old planes. Even US marines crashed their helicopter here during rescue.
I've been there in 2011 flying into Lukla on the last of a 4 leg flight . I make A220 wings and have worked in the Aerospace industry for over 10 years . The plane we travelled back on from Lukla to Kathmandu sadly crashed several months later into a mountainside killing all on board . This is my opinion, Nepal is well behind safety and and maintenance standards of the Western world and what I can glean ? Very few true follow ups of crash investigations .
Was in Nepal in March loved Kathmandu but you'll never see me go near a Nepalese airline. They're on the EU blacklist for a reason.
Hope the authorities take responsibility instead of pointing at others.
RIP to all those people who lost their lives in Nepal aircrashes. ❤
Flying is the safest form of transport but just not in Nepal. 😢
In selling real estate, it's said the key to success is "location location location."
In Nepalese aviation, it doesn't work that way. 😬
Forget Yeti, people are hardly going to trust any Nepalese airlines
no going by air to Pokhara
i will take the bus route
Just three words- Greed, greed and greed!!!
I wish I hear it wrong. A small country like Nepal that has 26 airlines??????
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Could it be mountains?
Yeti airlines noo good. No maintenance and too old...
Most of the highly skilled aeronautical engineers get recruited by CAAN (civil aviation authority of Nepal) for regular airplane checkups but due to good money offered by private airlines they get transferred to private players so the engineers left at CAAN are not really qualified, paid less, some don't even have science background. Again, these less qualified "engineers" are offered hefty money by private airlines to clear their airplane for flying. the cycle continues.
Engine failure of ATR 72 was the verdict after investigation.
Apparently the pilots saved the houses by crashing plane on a gorge.
They were heroes.......Grace !
No sir not engine failure, but a unbelievable mistake from the captain.
Lady first officer called "flaps 30" during landing approach and the captain
pulled the prop feather lever instead of the flaps lever stalling the plane.
They're not heroes when the engine failure was causer by them, not a fault of the plane but because one of the pilots chose to cut off power to an engine
D problem with nepal aviation is that they use very old planes
All due respect, but Yeti Airlines HQ is smaller than the local market in the small city I live in in NE India. As for the office of the regulator, I have no words. 🤦🏽♂️ Just a glance and you know that they are underfunded.
yeti airlines flight atr72-500 seriously, and also this flight wasnt nepals worst crash
Sending love to my Nepali brothers and sisters. You are by far the best people in the world.
YETI AIRLINES is one of the corrupted airline company in Nepal. This yeti group has direct links with higher domestic politicians. Yeti group runs the airlines from different branding. Please do research before boarding domestic airlines of Nepal just avoid Yeti.
Nepal’s aviation safety is poor. Most of the conclusions in crash investigations blame the dead pilots (human errors). I see a conspiracy in this type of conclusions, making a shield to protect the aircraft manufacturers from their responsibilities. I can see this and several RUclips videos already making a background for that. Some videos have already started promoting theory of human error in the recent Yeti airlines ATR-72 crash, a premise to favor the European aircraft manufacturers.
Def.neoal had problems but the major country too had recent tines shown some bad things
It is not a treacherous airspace - it is treacherous people and grift!
People from Nepal, anything wrong you find with the translation?
And the answer is corruption!
Only thing that is transparent in Nepal is corruption, every sector each and every sector is filled with corruption.
Yes, it's the major problem, because of corruption.
The map used in the report to show Nepal's geographic location in Asia shows Jammu & Kashmir as a separate entity. This is misleading. Hope such errors are avoided in the future.
700 it is too much in 3 decades
It is because the airline technology is not tested and developed according to high terrain of Nepal. In other words, the available airspace technology is not compatible with Nepal's steep and rugged terrain.
finally someone said it.
@@ramanbhandary7501 😎
I am from nepal the biggest problem here is corruption 😤
....and collaboration with communists of China
Politics, Lack of ethics and corruption
I request foreigner and Nepali people to never travel via Yeti Airlines and it's sister company Tara Airlines this airline is backed by powerful politicians of Nepal so they don't care about law and people lives so never travel by this airline i repeat never.
Corruption and instable government is also a big reason that's not solved and cannot too
biggest problem is corruption so Nepal cannot buy a new one and at last we all need to travel in those poor airplanes with biggest fear! All our fears are on high to height