Thanks. I mean I don't mind derailing threads when its a connected subject a bit but some people are touchy about it. We aren't fully on the same page but close enough.
I was in a near death situation with a bunch of people, no one was hurt but it could’ve ended with a lot of us dead or injured. Some people respond to death with nervous or even jovial laughter. Many are quiet and a few scream.
The guy in question is therefore the first person to ever witness a crash from the inside on stream. Congratulations.
Fun fact, plane crashes are so violent that one of the leading causes of death is something called an aortic tear, because the deceleration on impact is sudden enough the aorta literally rips because of the heart's movement.
Closest I got was in an elevator and the cable snapped loudly, followed by the elevator dropping about ten stories, stopping with a screeching sound as the emergency brakes kicked in. There were still ominous sproinging sounds going on the entire time before the rescue crew showed up to force open the doors and get us out of the elevator that was stuck between floors.
Looking at the exterior video now it looks like the airplane tip stalled on the left wing. I've crashed many model airplanes like that while coming in for landing. Without enough altitude they're next to impossible to recover from. I think it's pilot error now.
I have a hard time meshing the "victim video" with the witness footage of the crash. The victim is clearly in a fireball and explosion before the plane hits the ground. How could that be a pilot error?
There is footage floating around from after the crash of the rescuers sifting through debris and hoisting some pretty crispy bodies up the cliff. Will edit post with a link/file if I find it again. Very NSFL content.
I say pilot error because that's usually the main cause of crashes on final approach. It's a delicate balance of maintaining a slow enough air speed you can land and fast enough you don't stall out. The fdr should hold all the answers in this case I hope. ATR are pretty reliable and the few accidents they crashed are mainly due to ice formation on the wing in cold climates.
That's for the better, anyone getting out that shit "alive" would just be a broken shell of his former self, mentally and physically.
I don't see anything that looks like fire until after the crash in the POV video. Before the phone is fumbled, it just looks like they are alarmed by the plane sharply rotating.
It depends on how experienced they are at that kind of thing. They may very well have done stuff like this before. Nepal isn't particularly great for air travel.
I'm sure not a single one of them was surprised and they immediately knew what to expect after the call.
That's putting it mildly. Of the 10 most recent aircraft crashes in Nepal, 7 had everyone die.
