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Nepal plane crash: Black boxes of Yeti Airlines to be analysed in Singapore

Singapore's Transport Ministry will analyse the black boxes of a Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Nepal on January 15, killing all 72 people on board, including five Indians, in the country's worst air crash in 30 years. The Yeti Airlines flight 691, after taking off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in the resort city of Pokhara, minutes before landing. Fifty-three Nepalese passengers and 15 foreign nationals, including five Indians, and four crew members were on board the plane when it crashed. The Transport Ministry's (MOT) Transport Safety Investigation Bureau (TSIB) will help retrieve and read the data from the twin-engine ATR-72 plane's flight recorder, said an MOT spokesperson in a statement on Thursday. The analysis will be carried out at TSIB's flight recorder readout facility, which was set up in 2007. All investigation-related information, including the progress of ...

Crashed Yeti aircraft was previously owned by now-defunct Kingfisher

The Nepalese passenger plane, which crashed into a river gorge on Sunday with 72 people onboard, was previously used by the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, according to Cirium Fleets data. Yeti Airlines' 9N-ANC ATR-72 aircraft took off from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport at 10:33 am on Sunday and crashed on the bank of the Seti River between the old airport and the new airport in Pokhara, minutes before landing, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. At least 68 people, including five Indians, were feared dead, officials said, in Nepal's worst aviation tragedies in over three decades. According to Cirium Fleets data, which tracks aircraft fleet, equipment and its cost, the 9N-ANC aircraft was delivered to the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines in 2007. Six years later, it was bought by Thailand's Nok Air, before it was sold to Nepal's Yeti Airlines in 2019, it said. Cirium Fleets data noted that the aircraft was managed by

Curiosity or fear? How Yeti, Unicorn and Bigfoot caught world's imagination

The Indian Army had tweeted on the 29th of April that it spotted footprints that supposedly belonged to the mythical creature that lives in the Himalayas, according to legend.

The Yeti syndrome

Yet another myth goes viral

Is yeti real? Not a matter of science

Earth is a big planet and many species still remain undiscovered. Could yetis be one of them? Unlikely

Army to send pictures of 'Yeti' footprints to domain expert: Report

In Nepali folklore, Yeti is a mythical ape-like creature taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayas, Siberia, Central and East Asia

Scientists junk 'yeti' claim, attribute DNA sample to Himalayan brown bear

The hair samples had a 100 per cent match with DNA recovered from a fossil polar bear from over 40,000 years ago