Singapore’s Transport Safety Investigation Bureau flight recorder readout facility is performing the data retrieval of the black box in the Nepal plane that recently crashed.
According to Channel News Asia, the data retrieval from the black boxes of Yeti Airlines flight 691 will help Nepalese authorities in their investigation of what caused the plane to go down.
The crash on January 15 in Pokhara, Nepal took the lives of 72 passengers after plummeting into a gorge when approaching the new Pokhara International Airport. It is considered Nepal’s worst plane crash in 30 years.
The Kathmandu Post reported that a three-member investigation team will take the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to Singapore. The examination is expected to take at least a week from today.
Initially, it was proposed to take the black boxes to France, where the ATR 72 aircraft was…
