It was the 13 march 2018 as a plan of the type DHC-8-402Q from US-Bangla Airlines with 71 people on board, would land at the airport in Kathmandu in Nepal. According to witnesses and haveriutredningen the pilot made several unsuccessful attempts to land before he took the plane towards the runway from the wrong direction and passed so close to the tower air traffic controllers dodging because they thought that the plane would fly in it, write the website Aviation Safety Network.
and the plane went in for landing at an angle to the runway and without having to fold it down landningsställen until the last minute, crashed to slide over on an adjacent runway where it burst into flames six seconds after the crash
Only 20 people could be rescued from the burning wreck.
Now, according to a report from The accident to the 52-year-old pilot did not have control of his plane, writes the australian ABC.net. Among other things, smoked he. A recording of robbery in the cockpit also shows that the 52-year-old was very upset and sworn in the last few minutes before the crash.
performed the pilot aggressively and irritably and discussed excited how violated he felt ago a female colleague criticized him for not being a good instructor:
”He was busy with an unnecessary, unprofessional, and protracted discussion also during the critical part” of the landing, writes haverikommissionen.
Haveriutredarna also notes that the pilot just before the flight terminated from his job and during the landing, said he no longer knew how he would support himself.
the pilot had slept very little the night before the flight.
Many of those killed were nepalese medical students who were on their way home after studies in Bangladesh.
the Kathmandu airport ranks as the world’s most difficult to land on.