{"id":548727,"date":"2023-01-20T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548727"},"modified":"2023-01-20T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:13:13","slug":"failure-to-deploy-full-flaps-may-have-caused-air-crash-in-nepal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/failure-to-deploy-full-flaps-may-have-caused-air-crash-in-nepal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to deploy full flaps may have caused air crash in Nepal: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pilots of the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Nepal&#8217;s resort city of Pokhara may have failed to fully deploy the wing flaps while attempting to land, leading to a stall, a media report said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On January 15, a Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed into a gorge near the newly-built airport in Pokhara, killing 72 all on board, including five Indians, in the country&#8217;s worst air disaster in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>An aircraft coming to land has the flaps at the back of the wings fully down to provide more control at low speed and prevent stalling, the Kathmandu Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>The exact reason behind the crash will be known only after an examination of the flight data recorder, or the black box, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilots of the Yeti Airlines aircraft that crashed in Nepal&#8217;s resort city of Pokhara may have failed to fully deploy the wing flaps while attempting to land, leading to a stall, a media report said on Thursday. On January 15, a Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed into a gorge near the newly-built airport in Pokhara, killing 72 all on board, including five Indians, in the country&#8217;s worst air disaster in 30 years. An aircraft coming to land has the flaps at the back of the wings fully down to provide more control at low speed and prevent stalling, the Kathmandu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}